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I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#collections #designers #even #i #i am

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#i #now #open-ended #press #referring

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

#assigned #avoid #been #categories #could

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. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#because #belief #correct #every #ground

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.' ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#apparatus #ask #common #frequently #instrument

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. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#dialectic #disorder #identity #movement #narrative

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#arise #brief #brief period #cosmic #insignificant

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#demands #dialectic #event #interpreted #meaning

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#back #comfort #comfort food #equivalent #feel