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“It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'”

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Author:Aphex Twin

“From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.”

“I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.”

Sometimes Moments Film Wonder Effects Cry Dramatic Tragic

Author:Roman Polanski

“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

Giving Ideas Body Artist Found Names My Own Interesting Effects Objects College Strange Foreigners Making Up Found Objects

Author:Gavin Turk

“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.”

“I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.”

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Author:Charles Stross

“I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).”

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Author:Charles Stross

“The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .”

Able Life Is Effects Extraordinary

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging.”

Giving Looks Feelings Kids Night Black Realizing Rooms Wonder Effects Scene Hunters Inside And Outside

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.”

World Two Consciousness Effects Changed Building Extraordinary Blow Terror Narrative

Author:Don DeLillo

“Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.”

Men Believe Humans Long Today Consciousness Effects He Man Shapes Terror Terrorist Novelists Long Ago Human Consciousness

Author:Don DeLillo

“I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.”

Trying Song Sound Pieces Effects Wall Approach Balls Instruments Studios Equipment Emulate Channeling Plugs Crank Knobs

Author:Alan Cohen

“We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.”

Ifs Knows Should Stories Suffering Know How Effects Draws Obvious Who We Are Amnesia Detrimental

Author:David McCullough

“I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.”

Stories Achieve Effects Design Restaurants Equilibrium Food Service

Author:David Rockwell

“So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.”

Film Effects Crime Scared Visuals Makers Visual Effects

Author:Peter Jackson

“The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?”

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Author:Al Gini

“In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect.”

Persons Effects Produce Sacraments

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.”

Has Beens Different Real Facts Faces Belief Results Opinion Effects Particular Ought Tests Fruit Arguing Practicals Heroic Uniforms Appearing Soundness

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

“Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."”

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Author:Marie Curie

“But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.”

Mind Secret Effects Aim Method Workers Possession Valuable

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.”

Light Force Sides Effects Relation Contrary Rays Magnetic Magnetic Force

Author:Michael Faraday

“From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.”

Causes Effects Conclusion

Author:David Hume

“James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?”

Guy Asks Wish Causes Walks Effects Shoes Curse Sand Resisting

Author:Jim Rohn

“The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.”

People States United United States Effects Great Things Like Me Generosity Magnetic

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.”

Running Causes Situation Economy Trouble Economic Streets Effects Wall Mirrors Fundamentals Reverse Cause And Effect

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.”

Long Running Law Causes Quality Effects Amount Equal Rewards Long Runs Cause And Effect Rewards In Life

Author:Denis Waitley

“When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.”

People Knows Kind Care Choices Effects Importance Underestimate Never Underestimate Snowball Snowball Effect

Author:Alan Cohen

“The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.”

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Author:Anthony Kennedy

“It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.”

Thinking Moments Lasts Memories Effects Goes On

Author:Sofia Coppola

“I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.”

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Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.”

Art Natural Effects Miracle Guitarist

Author:Manuel de Falla

“Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.”

Sometimes Effects Enormous Modest

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.”

“Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.”

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Author:Will Shetterly

“The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.”

People Littles Age Wealth Effects Consequence Labor Old Age Instance Employers Accumulation Affluence

Author:Thomas Paine

“The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.”

People States Government Able Earth Can Do Liberty Watches Effects Operations Opponents Assumption Federal Government Guardian Legislature State Legislatures Jealously

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.”

Firsts May Doe Christ Acting Effects Worship Shots Rounds Justify Abandon Pretending Mars Altars Bishops Flocks

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.”

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Author:Rands

“What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .”

“Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays