Charles Francis Richter Quotes
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
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I give a lot of credit to Coach (Jerry) Farber and his team. They were extremely ready to play tonight. This is a team that is going to cause people fits.
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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
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The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.
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By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
