The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“Kamera ina athari kubwa sana katika maisha yetu. Inaweza kuharibu taswira ya mtu mbele ya jamii, na inaweza kuharibu maisha ya mtu… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water;… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. — Plato Copy Share Image
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
