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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. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. ↗

— Don Rickles

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#error #grave #imbalances #restrictions #trade

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. ↗