You are confusing yourself.  I recommend that you cease using ' and use
only its explicitly expanded form (quote ...) until you understand the
issues.  Also I recommend that you ensure that you understand what it
means to have strict evaluation of function arguments.

As an example:

(quote '(1 2 3)) is read as (quote (quote (1 2 3)))

(quote (quote (1 2 3))) evaluates to the list (quote (1 2 3))

therefore

(length (quote (quote (1 2 3)))) evaluates to (length v)
					where v = the list (quote (1 2 3))

Then you apply the function length to its evaluated argument, and
here the argument is a list of length 2 quite clearly: QUOTE is the
first element and (1 2 3) is the second element.

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