Charles Francis Richter Quotes
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.
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There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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And I will love you, baby - Always
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
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I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
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When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in the world for all people. Women's rights is one aspect of it, it's not the end-all, but I also think that the women's issue is the strongest entry point that we've got to challenging extremism. You raise a woman's issue and you get the backs of the conservatives up against the wall faster than just about any other issue in our community. It's the fastest path that we've got to making change happen.
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One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
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Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.
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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
