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Letter "Q" » quantity
«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. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.»
Author: Carl Bernstein
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
accuracy, blizzard, Business Today, compete, context, felony, frenzied, presented, quantity, splash, splashed, splashes, splashing, The News, thoroughness
«The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality»
Author: Irving Babbit
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
collapse, forests, minister, pulp, quantity, triviality
«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.»
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
(Economist)
| Keywords:
algebraic, algebraic language, quantity, sexes, The Passion
«The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
commerce, community, demands, enlarge, enlarging, enrich, goods, Great Society, hunger, quantity, serves, talents, The City, The Hunger, to enlarge
«The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
quantity
«That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.»
«The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.»
«The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
actual, derived, low quality, on the whole, quantity
«There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
discovery, literary, literature, paying, quantity
«Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.»
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