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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."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
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"Right is just and true."
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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
"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
"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"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
"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
Truth
"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."
Events
"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
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
Astronomy
"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."
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