We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's a choice if you want to change your life for the better. Life is cause and effect, it's all about choices.… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a certain approach that kinda cathes my ear, like „It's kinda cool what that guy's doing there", or maybe… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Going through cancer is bad enough, but the side effects of all the stuff that's supposed to make you better can sometimes… — Sarah Harding Copy Share Image
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image