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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."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."
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"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
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"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."
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"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."
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"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
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"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.'"
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"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
"Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point."
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"For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum."
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