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• [Donald Trump] is still pretty limited in the effect that he can have because he so disqualified himself with such a large number of voters that I don't think that there is an actual a path to victory for him. But he is at least doing a better - engaging in a better strategy than he had previously.

  Bill Burton

  Thinking, Numbers, Victory

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

  John Irving

  Baseball, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

  John Irving

  Philosophical, Wrestling, Athlete

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• Jackie Joyner-Kersee is actually someone I have a personal relationship with and who continues to do amazing things in her community. I continue to be inspired by her. If I can emulate myself after someone it's her and I just hope to have that effect on my community and continue to go on to do things like she has.

  Allyson Felix

  Community, Goes On, Inspired

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.

  Christine Lagarde

  Class, World, Size

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Internet, Instruments

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of things are done that couldn't be done before. On the other hand a lot of the effect of social media is to set up extremely superficial contacts amongst people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Media, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It also has, it can have, a cheapening effect and I think both exist and I think its true of everything. You could say that about the printing press.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Offering, Doe

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Groups, Use, Individual

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Association, Internet, Weakening

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Motivation, Government, Years

  "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

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• I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Finals, Generations, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.

  Allen W. Wood

  Technology, Long, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Action, Horror

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

  Allen W. Wood

  Way, Economic, Adam

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Greed, Unhappy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.

  Allen W. Wood

  Long, Humanity, Done

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Practice, Luxury

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think you have to drop an album to truly see the effects of your following.

  T.I.

  Thinking, Albums, Following

  "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

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• The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Atoms, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

  Catherine Wilson

  Pain, Pleasure Seeking, Bread

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Effort, Extroverts, Rewards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that'll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Decision, Parent, Helping

  Source: djbooth.net

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