As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Author: Charles Francis Richter

Author: Charles Francis Richter

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The only thing I command is respect.

Author: Kyrie Irving
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Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

Author: Clara Barton
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Being prepared prevents us from getting tripped up by unexpected glitches and surprises.

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I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

Author: George Michael
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

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Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen.

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Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devo

Author: Geraldine Brooks
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People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without

Author: Steven Pinker
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When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important:

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A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

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What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true ho

Author: Virginia Postrel
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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Author: Emily Dickinson
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You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously,Onl

Author: Subhan Zein
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Author: Voltaire
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Like Jesus, forgive those who are hurting you because they don't know what they are doing.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Where our thoughts dwell, so becomes our reality. Choose wisely!

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Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.

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I'll just say right here that whoever thought up the idea of paying dead white authors by the word s

Author: Heather W. Petty
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Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a

Author: Suman Pokhrel
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True Christianity is obedience to Jesus Christ.

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
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If you can't beat em: Poem.

Author: David Rowe
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You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Author: Jean M. Auel
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A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Author: Francis of Assisi
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It is not our responsibility to fix every mess. If someone steps onto the scary ledge of truth, it i

Author: Jen Hatmaker
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in

Author: Felix Bloch
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Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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I spoke of an Army on the point of entering an enemy's territories. Answering the question as to the

Author: Andrew Murray
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Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words

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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
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I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law

Author: Elena Kagan
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If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Author: Stephen Richards
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They said i run away coz i cant face situatonsI run away coz i dont want to get people seriously har

Author: Jaiendra Puri
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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and fin

Author: Ron Suskind
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I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.

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There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her

Author: Thomm Quackenbush
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... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

Author: Graham Greene
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She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn’t live without

Author: Dana Marton
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Author: Confucius
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Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear.

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Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.

Author: Sabrina Jeffries
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Life is ironic. Some people use their terrible childhood as an excuse of their unfortunate rest of t

Author: Nino Varsimashvili
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The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thi

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
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[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse se

Author: Sir Laurens van der Post
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Author: Pablo Picasso
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Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Author: Publilius Syrus
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Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.

Author: Asa Don Brown
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If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Author: Margaret Bourke-White
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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

Author: Shirley Temple Black
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York a

Author: Zooey Deschanel
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Dear women, do not marry until you find your true being, your mission

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil

Author: Charles Lamb
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Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Author: Lawrence Lessig
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Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

Author: Amit Ray
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Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only

Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
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It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our ow

Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still regis

Author: Suzy Kassem
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What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.

Author: Helen Maryles Shankman
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The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it.

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Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

Author: Gary Rohrmayer
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That girl is just plain crazy," Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when the

Author: Dzintra Sullivan
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Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they

Author: George Burns
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Be Brave. Bravery takes fortitude—put yourself on the line, even if you risk failing, falling, being

Author: Susan C. Young
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The more I learn, the more I yearn.

Author: Aaron B. Powell
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Body needs variable of time to be able to settle presence of soul in this three-dimensional space.

Author: Toba Beta
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I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me,swimming in the sea of myself,learning eternally -fin

Author: Jay Woodman
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So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved.

Author: Fay Weldon
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[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, e

Author: Edward Abbey
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The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indeciphera

Author: Anne Ursu
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati

Author: Osamu Dazai
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Some things you jes' know Doll, and that's one I'd bet the farm on.

Author: Unknown
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You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa

Author: Ken Grimwood
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Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

Author: James Bridie
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Life ought to be live with great optimism.

Author: Unknown
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Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we liv

Author: Steven Franssen
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Ena wore black because she knew it could stir panic in the hearts of mankind. Black gave the impress

Author: Terry Spear
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Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – alway

Author: Jayne Castel
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It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are clo

Author: Criss Jami
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. M

Author: Floyd Mayweather
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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t

Author: Cory Doctorow
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spe

Author: Rachel Roy
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In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

Author: Samuel Johnson
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Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and

Author: Brad Watson
Quote #148227

Stop walking with a ‘calendar’. It’s capable of ruining your fate, by showing you the date & limitin

Author: Sujit Lalwani
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Author: Carl Andre
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The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for

Author: Isaac Newton
Quote #281968

I loved you when I left you.

Author: Abby Norman
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I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking a

Author: David Sedaris
Quote #31486

I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.

Author: Toba Beta
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As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty th

Author: Sindiwe Magona
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The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni

Author: David Almond
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Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Author: Robert K. Merton
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To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature a

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #439172

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't he

Author: Slavoj Zizek
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One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

Author: Franz Kafka