"[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically."

-- Charles Francis Richter

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“Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping a separation between Corporations and State--because in America (and most of the rest of the Western World, for that matter) economics is the real religion.”
“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
“Think about the most important things in life and set hard boundaries to protect them.”
“Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.”
“Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?”
“I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.”

Source : Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company
“It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.”

Source : Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.11, HarperCollins
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for ***** brownies.”

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