Effects Quotes - Page 9

• I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

  Kat Duff

  Placebo Effect, Long, Magic

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• There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.

  Gary Gulman

  Talking, Drug, Way

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• It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.

  Dov Davidoff

  Negative, Shame, Physical Beauty

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

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• Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.

  John Heartfield

  Photography, Skills, Done

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• I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Cutting, Figures

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• Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Ideas, Iron

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• History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Heart, Essentials

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• For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

  Joseph Campbell

  Order, Brain, Quests

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

  Haley Barbour

  Rain, Tree, Environmental

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• If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

  Dallas Willard

  Evil, Mind, Asking

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• The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

  Dallas Willard

  Welcome, Transformation, Standing

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• No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Blessing, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing... But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

  Kent Nerburn

  Heart, Simple, Two

  "Simple Truths: Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life". Book by Kent Nerburn, 1996.

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• It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, War, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?

  Patrick Michaels

  Research, Climate, United States

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• The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Intellectual

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

  Reid Bryson

  Spit, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide

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• These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.

  Keith E. Idso

  Environmental, Important, Rising

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• It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.

  J Mascis

  Guitar, Play, Feelings

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• The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are called externalities, effects on others. I sell you a car, if our eyes are open we'll make a good deal for ourselves but we're not asking how it's going to affect her [over there.] It will, there'll be more congestion, gas prices will go up, there will be environmental effects and that multiplies over the whole population. Well, that's very serious.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Car, Decision

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Negative, Profit

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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