Effect Quotes

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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction… — M. Scott Peck
...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon… — Stephen Batchelor
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing… — William Greider
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much… — W L George
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as a… — Tim Berners-Lee
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. — Ovid
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect. — Michel de Montaigne
The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it. — Billy Graham
Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the… — Wassily Kandinsky
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. — Henri Matisse
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. — Bertrand Russell
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. — Pieter Geyl
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot. — Bill Walton
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes… — Charles Caleb Colton
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson

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