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Effect Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
- The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
- The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in…
- Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its…
- Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None…
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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
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- 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
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- 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 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
- Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch… — Roseanne Barr
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams