Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
— William Boyd
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I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they…
— Tom Rath
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic…
— Sarah Churchwell
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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are…
— Robert Darnton
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would…
— Zubin Mehta
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I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like…
— Kevin Mitnick
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
— Dana Goodyear
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
— Henry Rollins
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities…
— Richard Lamm
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Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may…
— Michael Moss
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My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall…
— Gretchen Rubin
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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater…
— Bob Keeshan
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What people see the first family do has an effect. And from a slightly different aspect, I think that family living in the White House…
— George Stevens, Jr.
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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
— Richard Jefferies
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these…
— Mahavira
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All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are…
— Noreena Hertz
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While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power…
— Martin Jacques
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