Exerts Quotes
30 Exerts quotes by 30 unique authors
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
— David Buss
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The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
— Arthur Eddington
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There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.
— Unknown Author
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The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon…
— Ludwik Fleck
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The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also…
— Patrick Geddes
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Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a…
— Abraham Zaleznik
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But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
— Samuel Johnson
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature
— Mencius
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Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;…
— Marsilio Ficino
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes…
— Oswald Chambers
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by…
— Adolf Hitler
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One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature…
— Edgar Degas
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Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting…
— Richard Diebenkorn
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
— Bill Vaughan
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When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method…
— Martin Heidegger
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound…
— John Locke
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