Effect Quotes

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When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd. — Tim Ward
First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture. — Sun Simiao
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. — L. Ron Hubbard
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back. — Stewart Udall
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art. — Seneca the Younger
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. — W. Somerset Maugham
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in… — Marvin Minsky
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for… — S I Hayakawa
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of… — Andre Gide
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged… — John Philip Sousa
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… — Charles Dudley Warner
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with… — Norman Cousins
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one… — Judith Martin
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was… — Blaise Pascal

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