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		SideburnsOfDoom 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast > Someone (Napoleon?) is credited with saying "quantity has a quality all its own" Joe Stalin, I believe. It's a grim metaphor regarding the USSR's army tactics in WW2. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/795954-quantity-has-a-quali...

SatvikBeri 8 days ago [–]

According to Wikiquotes, this is a common misattribution, and the first known record is Ruth M. Davis from 1978, who attributes it to Lenin: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quantity

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