Effect Quotes

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We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of… — Noah Levine
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and… — William Bartram
I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful.… — Naomi Klein
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will… — Abraham Lincoln
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those… — Joseph Henry
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government… — G. Edward Griffin
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in… — Boyd K. Packer
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore… — Abraham Lincoln
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. — James Anthony Froude
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to… — John C. Baez
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no… — David Ricardo
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is… — Erving Goffman
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as… — J I Packer
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much… — Gerda Lerner
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion… — Judith Butler
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for… — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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