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Effect Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- 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.
- The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
- Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not…
- The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique…
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would…
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- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
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- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
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- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
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- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing… — Henry Adams
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
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- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams