From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket. — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You know, dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with 'Mythbusters,' the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan,… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will… — Robert S. de Ropp Copy Share Image
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation,… — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image