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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

English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Henry Hazlitt

American journalist & writer

It’s difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

Lyle Lovett

American musician

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

Walther Bothe

German physicist (*1891 - +1957)

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

Vincent D’Onofrio

American actor and filmmaker (born 1959)

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874-1950)

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Brian Ferneyhough

British composer

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