Charles Francis Richter Quotes
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
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There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.
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No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.
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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
