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“Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.”

People Thinking Looks Eye Order Effects Birth Corners Disappear Data Analyzing

Book:The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

Source: The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?”

Wells May Home Causes Simple Effects Baby Birth Rose Rate Population Credit Germany Mistaken Cause And Effect Tempting Correlation Pseudoscience Birth Rate Storks Home Birth

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

Giving Firsts Law Causes Differences Economy Effects Birth Habit Consequence Ultimate Institutions Series Investing Enormous Succession Converses

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

Men Giving Sometimes Passion Effects Birth Bravery Contrary Resolution Cowardice Boldness Avarice Levity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”

Order Social Moral Effects Birth Crisis Progressive Rhetoric Breakdown Presenting Concealing

Author:Christopher Lasch

“To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.”

May Mean Attitude Effects Humility Birth Humble Conclusion Meek Chanting

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.”

Life Is Goal Consciousness Attitude Millions Our Lives Achieve Effects Humility Birth Determine Humble Chanting

Author:Radhanath Swami