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• I’ve discovered that sheer quantity doesn’t necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

  James Hetfield

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  Tags in Quantity, Sound

• Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

  David Ricardo

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• If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it

  David Ricardo

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• It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

  David Ricardo

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• If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

  Emile Zola

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• In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

  Walter Rudolf Hess

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

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• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

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• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  Irving Babbitt

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• The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

  Thomas Robert Malthus

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• Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

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  Tags in Proportion, Quantity, Division, Equal, Parts

• But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

  Christopher Columbus

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