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• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Color, Said

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• I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

  Robert De Niro

  Character, Needs, Mama

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• Satire doesn't effect change.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Satire

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• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  Yoko Ono

  Wish, Messages, Praying

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• I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

  Larry Page

  Men, Thinking, Should Have

  "Google CEO Larry Page Wants A Totally Separate World Where Tech Companies Can Conduct Experiments On People". Article by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Song, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

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• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

  Blaise Pascal

  Different, Different Meanings

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.38, tredition

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• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Years

  "Reps. Pence, Clyburn Survey Political Landscape". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.

  Rick Perry

  Three, Goes On, Republican

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• As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

  Tom Peters

  Powerful, Halos, Want

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• The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Mind, Bags

  "Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?" by Mark Baard, www.wired.com. April 16, 2003.

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• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  Robert Plant

  Smile, Thinking, People

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• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.4, City Lights Books

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• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Weakness, Atrocities, Causes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Danger, Terror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.161, Bottletree Books LLC

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• No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

  Karl Popper

  Attitude, Men, Doe

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.503, Routledge

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• Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

  Michael Porter

  Community, Urban, Ripple Effect

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• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  Beatrix Potter

  Too Much, Eating, Said

  Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) p. 9

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• Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Voting, Democracy

  "Postal voting: easy does it" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Great Change

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Artist, Arrows, Elements

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• Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

  Keanu Reeves

  Spiritual, Energy, Flow

  "Life in hell for Keanu Reeves". www.today.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

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• I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Age, Different

  "Ryan Reynolds Interview - THE NINES" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 31, 2007.

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