Effect Quotes

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Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but… — Wassily Kandinsky
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of… — Heraclitus
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence,… — Kenzo Tange
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands â€“ and to use them… — Pope Francis
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning oneâ€™s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth… — Pope Francis
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be… — Ann Radcliffe
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more… — Fritz Kreisler
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors… — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear. — Elbert Hubbard
It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price… — David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase… — David Ricardo
There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start… — Lisa Bloom
In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an awesome… — Roy Hession

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