Effects Quotes - Page 39

• Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

  Adam Rickitt

  Break Up, Community, Drug

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• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Nuts, Example, Brazil

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• I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

  Herb Ritts

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Broken Heart, Judging

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• However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Action, Intention, Glorious

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• The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Owing, Calm

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• As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

  David Rockefeller

  Children, Different, Unusual

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.38, Random House

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  Richard Rogers

  Believe, Passion, People

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• Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, Political

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• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Paul Goat Allen, www.publishersweekly.com. January 31, 2011.

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• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Agency, Europe, Unions

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• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

  Fake People, Judging, Feelings

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth”, p.15, Routledge

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• If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

  Richard Russo

  Class, Theme, Endure

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• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Numbers

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• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hurt, Anger, Passion

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• Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

  Jose Saramago

  Hymns, Political, Moments

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Novelists, Essays

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• I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Usa, America

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

  Adam Savage

  Design, Chocolate, Special

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Watches, Letters

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• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Opposites, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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• Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

  Howard Schultz

  Reading, Listening, News

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• I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

  Martin Scorsese

  Chinese, Film, Ends

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