Effect Quotes

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As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more… — George Orwell
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse… — W. Somerset Maugham
Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer… — Denis Waitley
In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,… — Lysander Spooner
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle… — J C Ryle
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes;… — Kenneth Anger
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect… — Aristotle
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour. — Jane Austen
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but… — Wassily Kandinsky
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of… — Heraclitus
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence,… — Kenzo Tange
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands – and to use them… — Pope Francis
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth… — Pope Francis
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be… — Ann Radcliffe
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more… — Fritz Kreisler
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors… — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear. — Elbert Hubbard

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