Charles Francis Richter Quotes
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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So, can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes. But I don't think every sweater you get from Goodwill has demons in it. But, in a sense, you're mother's just being super cautious, so hey, it isn't going to hurt you to rebuke any spirits that happen to have attached themselves to those clothes.
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Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
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I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
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I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.
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I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
