The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
The strength behind communication is in its quality, not in its quantity. Your talk should be that of quality, not of quantity.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type… — Jim Dunnigan Copy Share Image
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were… — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not.… — Jim Loehr Copy Share Image
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr Copy Share Image
The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When a suitable quantity of India ink is introduced into the circulation of a living anaesthetized animal, it is evenly mixed with… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
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