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• We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

  Tracy Chapman

  Technology, Media, Talking

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• You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

  Dick Cheney

  Mistake, Thinking, America

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Long, Endless, Nevertheless

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• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

  Jean Cocteau

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

  James S. Coleman

  Class, Achievement, Ranking

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  Gail Collins

  Husband, Nice, Thinking

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• Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Sound, Doe, Way

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• Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

  Norman Cousins

  Loss, Literature, Causes

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

  William Cowper

  Nature, Travel, Names

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Experience, Judgment

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Law, Causes

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• Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Taken, Soul

  "Deneuve hits out at 'soulless' Hollywood". www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Details

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Way, Piety

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• Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

  Robert Duvall

  Special, Today, Rooms

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Simple, Medieval Europe

  "Infinite in All Directions, Ch. 8 : Quick Is Beautiful, p. 135". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

  Terry Eagleton

  War, Enemy, Sides

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• You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Character, Special

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• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Special, Elements, Horror

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

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• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  Umberto Eco

  Reading, Different, Poetic

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.545, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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