Enormous Quantities Quotes

• There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

  Aldous Huxley

  Alcohol, Heaven, Drink

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.32, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

  Richard Dawkins

  Looks, Way, Evolution

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• If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

  Emma Goldman

  Pride, Men, Numbers

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Society, Half

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• For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected in enormous quantities for analysis; that would be the precondition for placing the chemist in such a position as would allow him to analyse [the hereditary material] more minutely than [can] the morphologists ... For the morphology of the nucleus has reference at the very least to the gearing of the clock, but at best the chemistry of the nucleus refers only to the metal from which the gears are formed.

  Theodor Boveri

  Cells, Would Be, Analysis

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• Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

  Jim Dunnigan

  Military, War, Skills

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• Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Style, Mouths

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ocean, Blue, Sea

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.162, e-artnow

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• Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

  Voltaire

  Estúpido, Libro, Gente

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• El vertido repentino de cinco millones de barriles de petróleo, enormes cantidades de metano y dos millones de galones de dispersantes tóxicos en un Golfo de México ya muy afectado alterará de forma permanente la naturaleza de la zona.

  Sylvia Earle

  Two, Oil, Stressed

  "Sylvia Earle habla de los efectos del vertido de petróleo en el Golfo en una entrevista exclusiva". Entrevista con Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 13 de enero de 2011.

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• That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Organization, People

  "Por qué el mundo necesita a WikiLeaks". Entrevista con Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. Julio de 2010.

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