#quantity

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious. ↗

— David F. Houston

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

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending. ↗

— Lewis Thompson Preston

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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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

— John Ruskin

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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