#quantity

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

— Milan Kundera

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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

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

— V. S. Naipaul

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I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community. ↗

— Joe Baca

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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Number is different from quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

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