Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1711 authors
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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using…
— Leon Theremin
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If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could…
— David Davis
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We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the…
— Frank Murphy
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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same…
— Thomas Reid
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
— William Petty
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect…
— Henri Poincare
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It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
— William Thomas Stead
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Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.…
— George Ryan
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial…
— David Trimble
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The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population…
— Lewis Tappan
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Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted…
— William Odom
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I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I…
— Peter Wright
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless…
— Algernon Sidney
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
— Colin Greenwood
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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
— George Stephen
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The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project…
— Gerhard Schroder
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One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
— Gerhard Schroder
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But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have…
— Jim Walsh
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What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly…
— Roy Barnes
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Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
— Ezra Cornell
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