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• From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

  Daisy Bates

  Wonder, Responding, Interiors

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• The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

  Seth

  Past, Mind, Way

  "Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul". Book by Jane Roberts (Session 566), 1972.

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• I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

  Trey Anastasio

  Song, Half, Steps

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• It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

  Andrew Cohen

  Ignorance, Literature, Way

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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• Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

  David Jenkins

  Cancer, Fiber, Vegetarian

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• If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

  William Morris

  Wall, Nice, Judgement

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

  Martha Beck

  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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• It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.

  John Adams

  Believe, America, Errors

  Letter to Abigail Adams, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 03, 1776.

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• I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Tests, Hearing

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method.
  Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist.
  Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe.
  Dogbert: Sounds cultish.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Science, Reality

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• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Years, Three

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• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  William Petty

  Soul, Acres, Thousand

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.219

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• Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

  William Ellery Channing

  Real, Lying, Greatness

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.4

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• There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

  Voltaire

  Names, Causes, Accidents

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• The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

  Voltaire

  Music, Animal, Class

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.238

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• The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

  Adam Smith

  Artist, Principles, Machines

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.460, VM eBooks

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• I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

  Andre Dubus

  War, Writing, Men

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

  Joshua Harris

  World, Painful Life, Sin

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• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  Ted Turner

  Negative, Television, Our Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Giving Up, Scary

  John Wesley (1856). “The Life of John Wesley”, p.195

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• Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.

  Kenneth Clark

  Drama, Long, May

  Kenneth Clark (1988). “Leonardo da Vinci”, Viking Pr

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• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Improvement, Natural

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.283, VM eBooks

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• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  John Locke

  Children, Mind, Noble

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.51

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• Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

  Jack London

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  Jack London (1903). “Novels and Social Writings”, p.952, Library of America

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