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"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
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"Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles."
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"The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion."
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"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
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"Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?"
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
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"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
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"I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do."
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"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
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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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"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"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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"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
"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
"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."
Energy
"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
"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."
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"I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale."
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"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."
Experience
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