The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.
Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
On average, both the quantity and quality of employment are improving. But the evolution of the modern economy has resulted in an hourglass effect where the middle is getting squeezed. Individuals are either moving up or down but finding it hard to hold their ground.
We know the chief sources of the warming -- fossil fuels and, in the tropics, the burning of trees for cooking -- but we haven't moved to stop it, ... It really isn't that difficult to begin reducing carbon emissions, as Europe and Japan are doing already. We could certainly put a cap on the quantity of greenhouse gases industry can emit.
Concentrations of mercury can pose a hazard, especially is you move a quantity of it on, say, a shoe. If you then take that (mercury) into a confined space it could create some serious health risks, especially if it got into the water supply.
He's a real good pro. He immediately fit right in with the guys. His intelligence is something that we liked. He's improved each and every game, and the quantity and quality of his ice time has gone to a higher level.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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.
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.
We are meeting the Department of Environmental Quality's three requirements - quantity, quality and reliability. The exchange sets up a 2005 water right the purchase is the insurance policy. In the unlikely event that there's a call on the river, it protects the homeowners.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving se with the tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed.... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life in the West and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
We're thrilled to welcome Diego back to the Chicago Fire family. In getting Diego back, we're getting a known quantity. He's a competitor and a versatile player that will provide us with a number of positional options this year.
It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.
We realized we'd be down as an industry this year. We didn't have the same caliber of releases and in the same quantity.
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
He that gives all, though but little, gives much because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Those who acquire it will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful. ... And as for wisdom, your pupils will have the reputation for it without the reality they will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.
The incentives in our health care system are just wrong wrong for providers, wrong for payers, wrong for patients, ... Providers get paid on the basis of the quantity of the care they provide, not the quality of outcomes.
Pennsylvania is right now undergoing an assessment of water quality, but I think we also need to take a look at and assess of our water quantity.
The FDA on occasion will find those drugs admissible for personal use or when it appears to be a personal use quantity. The issue at hand is it's illegal, and the recipient never is assured that the same quality is going to arrive at their door step or th
I could've easily had 15 teams this year. I was approached at the U.S. Open in Dallas in February by three high-profile teams who want to join. But this is about quality control over quantity. In the future, we may add more teams, but for now I'm happy with the five we have.
Number is different from quantity.
So having thousands of tons of chemical weapons is an immense quantity.
We were startled by the quantity of data directed at this single machine. Even a lone spam zombie can spew huge volumes of illegal e-mail across the Internet.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
We seem to have economic amnesia. Decisions about what sort of technologies to invest in, what fuels to produce and in what quantity are best made by consumers and business, and not by politicians.
I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.
There quality makes up for quantity.
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
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