#quantity

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ↗

— Frederic Chopin

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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