“If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is… — Lester Grinspoon Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
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