"The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale."

-- Charles Francis Richter

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“There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...”
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.”

Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation
“I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.”

Source : "Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
“You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?”
“Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.”
“The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.”
“Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.”
“I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning”

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