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"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
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"Whatever you believe in your heart, you will receive it."
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"Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!"
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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
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"I done something bad, it was to believe that to read a book you must be a stupid guy. No people which read they are clever - the guy who said this is stupid guy!"
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"The human mind has a primordial affinity towards ideas of miracles and mysticism, especially, in times of weakness."
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"Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world."
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"The one who has enlightened view (right belief; samkiti), he indeed does not have any problems, anywhere. He remains only the Knower-Seer everywhere. As long as there is any problem or objection, it cannot indeed be called samkit (enlightened view, right belief)."
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"There's no point in believing in things that exist."
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"Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism."
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"Believing is half the cure."
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"In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them."
Risk
"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."
Body
"Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world."
Justice
"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"
Will
"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity."
Energy
"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
Astronomy
"I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry."
Life
"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."
Engineering
"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
Science
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