Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart…
— Kin Hubbard
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It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
— Edmund Burke
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The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making…
— Richard Avedon
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not…
— Corrine Brown
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp…
— V.S. Naipaul
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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
— Mohsin Hamid
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I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only…
— Carl Jung
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
— Albert Bandura
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
— William James
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer…
— Jacques Derrida
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As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of…
— Condoleezza Rice
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure…
— Raymond Chandler
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Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive…
— Jane Jacobs
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