Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character…
— Dick Wolf
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict…
— Oliver Lodge
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's…
— Roy H. Williams
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It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now…
— Godfrey Reggio
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of…
— Frederick Soddy
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
— Thomas Reid
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
— George Henry Lewes
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
— Judd Nelson
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If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all…
— Benjamin Franklin
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As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the…
— Claude Bernard
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But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was…
— Andrea Camilleri
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No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met…
— James E. Talmage
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If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of…
— Don Altman
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The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
— Charles Spurgeon
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on…
— Jack Adams
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That…
— Bernie Siegel
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
— Florence Ellinwood Allen
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When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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