Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion…
— George W. Bush
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God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We…
— Marianne Williamson
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Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work…
— Adam Yauch
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect…
— William Cowper
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It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it.…
— Thomas Troward
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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
— John Stuart Mill
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
— Plutarch
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
— Mark Steyn
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible…
— Plato
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If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their…
— Peter Senge
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Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
— George Iles
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Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact…
— Joel Garreau
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We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is…
— Roy Spencer
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Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood…
— Teresa de Lauretis
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Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into…
— Vatsyayana
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