Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September…
— Barack Obama
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Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not…
— Patrick Vieira
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Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually…
— Chris Kilham
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I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.
— David Jeremiah
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You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people.…
— James L. Brooks
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The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
— Oscar Wilde
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As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
— George Orwell
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer…
— Denis Waitley
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In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,…
— Lysander Spooner
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Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle…
— J C Ryle
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Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes;…
— Kenneth Anger
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect…
— Aristotle
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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
— Jane Austen
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