Effect Quotes

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If we were all given by magic the power to read each otherâ€™s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would… — Bertrand Russell
I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my… — David Foster Wallace
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning… — Malcolm Gladwell
Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin… — Christian D. Larson
And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. — Horace
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is… — Sienna Miller
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson
You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the… — Marianne Williamson
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect. — Will Hutton
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.… — Oscar Wilde
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead… — Oscar Wilde
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general… — George Orwell
We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever… — Elwyn Brooks White
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect… — Mark Twain
Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow — Albert Einstein

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