#magnitude

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

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According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. ↗

— Ovid

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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

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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

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It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#how #know #magnitude #measured #often

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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