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• The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Ideas, Intellectual, World

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force yourself to write when you're in the doldrums, it will have the perverse effect of cheering you up. At the very least, it allows you to inflict your pain on your characters, which has the dual effect of giving them more depth while relieving your own tension.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Cheer, Pain, Writing

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• The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Believe, People, Sick

  "Exclusive: Maria Conchita Alonso's Hollywood Drama". Interview with Monica Herrera, www.latina.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Fall, Memorable

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• Sarah Palin has already had an effect on foreign relations... The new president of Pakistan, Ali Zardari, is in hot water, because last week, Sarah was on a class trip to New York, where she met foreign leaders... And one of the leaders she met was Zardari, and he was gushing over her. He said, oh, you're more gorgeous in person than you are on TV. And so the people in his home country of Pakistan, the Islamists, they issued a fatwa on him, for being too 'flirty.' And when Sarah today was told that Zardari had gotten a fatwa because of her, she said, 'I know, I felt it when he hugged me.'

  Bill Maher

  Country, New York, Flirty

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• Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.

  John Dewey

  Responsibility, Mind, Adequate

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• Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

  Andre Luiz Moreira

  Life Is, Illusion, Obscure

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• Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Character, Vegetables

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• We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Hurt, Reflection, Talking

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• Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Passion, Mind, Body

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

  Don DeLillo

  Plot, Murder, Knows

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Soul

  "The Mystery of the Cross in Padre Pio of Pietrelcina". Book by Gerardo Di Flumeri (p. 16), 1983.

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• I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

  John James Audubon

  Long, Style, Copying

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.117

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• I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

  Eric Topol

  Knowing, Might, Sides

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• I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Choices, Determined

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

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• The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.

  Benjamin Creme

  Alzheimer's, Direct Effect, Air

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.

  Richard A. Falk

  Attitude, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Years, Creative, Imagine

  Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.

  Okkyung Lee

  Giving Up, Real, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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