Quotes: effect
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Vaclav Havel
Czech statesman, writer and former dissident
1936-2011
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
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The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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L. Ron Hubbard
American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology
1911-1986
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
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All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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