I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect,… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was… — Roy Hession Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say,… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in the lore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file,… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
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