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The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.


Geoff Davis


#daily #daily lives #difficult #figure #lives

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.


Gottfried Leibniz


#aside #bounds #follows #god #limited

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.


Ovid


#confidence #magnitude #people #slow #undertakings

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.


Thomas Paine


#direction #into #magnitude #taken #which

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!


William Petersen


#episode #good #knew #magnitude #making

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.


Dan Quayle


#help #i #impressed #magnitude

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.


Charles Francis Richter


#energy #example #for example #infrared #large

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

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.


Charles Francis Richter


#astronomy #brightness #brought #interest #magnitude






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