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Effect Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that…
- Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
- 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…
- Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is…
- There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former…
- 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…
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- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
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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
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
- I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends… — Bill Brandt