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• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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• The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

  Havelock Ellis

  Husband, Home, Average

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.67, Elsevier

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• Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Birth Control, Social, Function

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.55, Elsevier

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two Sides, Causes, Facts

  Essays Circles

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• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Nba, Games

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  Gloria Estefan

  Profound, May, Littles

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• I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Strong, Icons, Gigs

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• You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

  Chris Evans

  Fun, America, Special

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• Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Depression, People, Laughing

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• The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

  William Falconer

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

  Nigel Farage

  Ideas, Alcohol, Duty

  "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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• I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Mind, Body

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• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Literature, Sticks

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• Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Thinking, Direct Effect

  "Community-Based Doulas: A Good Investment in the Future" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Taken, Yale

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• It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

  Thomas Frank

  Disappointment, Party, Two

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

  Al Franken

  Believe, Soldier, Troops

  "American Forces Radio: Objective view of the home front?" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Scripts, Driving, Bigs

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• Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Cynical, Political

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• People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

  Anna Friel

  Love Life, Games, Play

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

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• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Player, Fields

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• I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Voice, Numbers

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• Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Suffering, Economics

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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