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“Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.”

World Matter Causes Effects Design Creatures Ocean Relation Bounds Shore Thread Fabric Surroundings Living Things Cause And Effect Intricate Weaving Fabric Of Life

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.”

Pain Effects Stealing My Time

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.”

Long Lasts Moral Effects Discipline Prove Clubs Compulsion

Book:A Montessori Mother

Source: A Montessori Mother

“External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!”

Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth

“A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.”

World Left Effects Competition Western Selfish Manage Destructive Components Western World

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

States Government Might Form Names Money Power Effects Duty Source Instruments Mere Officers Treasury

Author:Andrew Jackson

“I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.”

States Effects Paper Ruins Protest Fearful Receiving Trash Demoralizing

Author:Andrew Jackson

“To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.”

Knows Littles Shows Law Causes Chance Effects Luck Cause And Effect

Author:Hosea Ballou

“With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.”

Way Kind Speak Kindness Effects Regard Careful Occasions Manifest Be Careful Gentleness Rebuke

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.”

Helping Effects Genuine Smiles

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.”

Sound Effects Wave Barriers Gossip Sheer Rumor

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

“television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.”

“Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.”

Heaven Causes Pay Effects Wicked Retribution

Author:Pierre Corneille

“It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.”

Men Mind Reality Speak Easy Effects Words Of Wisdom Comfortable Distance Details

Author:Lord Acton

“Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.”

Sometimes Understanding Effects Reflection Fancy Faculty Lively Lulls

Author:George Crabbe

“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.”

“Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.”

Two Used Lines Groups Subjects Effects Students Months Research Decided Nine Compare Marijuana Users Boston Two Months

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.”

Christian Causes Effects Cause And Effect Christian Science

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.”

Sometimes Character Feelings Causes Effects Mood Prose Cause And Effect

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.”

Ifs Want Littles Art Guy Lines Views Cases Special Effects Point Of View Trails Acid Special Effects

Author:William Gibson

“Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.”

Political Causes Moral Economy Study Effects Economics Weather Discussion Poetic Creeds Cause And Effect Meteorology

Book:Basic Economics

Source: Basic Economics

“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.”

Differences Chance Results Subjects Effects Approach Cameras Photographer Significant

Author:Andreas Feininger

“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”

“Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.”

Body Morning Effects Food Cold Taste Cooking Culinary Showers Bud Taste Buds Marmalade

Author:Jeanine Larmoth

“We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.”

Wells Effects Food Color Teeth Chinese Culinary Flavor Fragrance Texture Crisps

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.”

Want Needs Bigs Government Order Pay Economy Effects Periods Taxes Finance Efficient Socialist Big Government

Author:Antonis Samaras

“My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).”

People Moral Economy Issues Influence Economic Effects Corruption Moral Issues Economic Issues

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Stories Special Effects Taught Depends Hollywood Props Taught Us Special Effects

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.”

Made Moments Bigs Kids Realizing Effects Fleeting Having Kids

Author:Frank Iero

“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.”

May Problem Stuff Wealth Effort Effects Security Function Generosity Generous Appetite Antidote

Author:Andy Stanley

“The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.”

Light Turns Sides Consciousness Darkness Effects Negativity Expanding Turn-on Side Effects

Author:David Lynch

“If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.”

Ifs Kind Character Effects Main Characters

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.”

Thinking Feels Should Trying Persons Different Hard Play Character Class One Thing Effects Theater Who You Are Relate Helpful

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.”

Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Problem Know How Effects Conscious Advantage Solve Unconscious Adaptation Gadgets

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.”

Ifs Mind Light Beautiful Spirit Next Morning Magic Effects Adventure Ready Tasks Encouragement Enthusiasm Spells Noon Cheerfulness Distasteful Beautiful Morning

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.”

Fighting Causes Effort Accepting Effects Danger Increase Originals Illness Mental Illness Inevitable Sickness

Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.”

Men Character Sports Laughing Effects Command Consideration Toys

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.”

Worst Effects Produce Corruption Instance Enthusiasm Best Things Superstitions Maxims Pernicious True Religion

Book:Hume: Political Essays

Source: Hume: Political Essays

“Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.”

Passion Effects Taste Misery Spheres Delicacy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.”

Looks Has Beens Stills Next Effects Hair Ill Customers Restaurants Chairs This Day Conformity Parlor

Book:Don't blame the mirror

Source: Don't blame the mirror

“... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.”

Belief Effects Miracle Fallen Ads Peasants Sweetheart

Book:That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments

Source: That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments

“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.”

Believe Has Beens Done Feelings Religion Turns Women Modern Effects Sweet Depends Intellectual Communicate Invention Therapy Distinction Relative Protestantism

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.”

Liberty Effects Dangerous Produce Excess Servitude

Author:Zoroaster

“The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.”

Hands Light Causes Space Talking Effects Property Speed Time And Space Cause And Effect Woven Speed Of Light

Author:Brian Greene

“a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Effects Work Out Enjoyable Time To Think Things Work Out

Book:Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

“But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.”

Wells Soul Causes Advice Effects Opposites Passive Perversity

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.”

Men Kind Has Beens Faith Effects Materials Intellect Giants Enterprise Faculty Heroism Great Work Passivity

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.”

People Self Worst Effects Fool Discipline Bounds Self Discipline Tutelage

Author:Suzanne La Follette