Efficacy Quotes - Page 2

• In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Christian, Dwelling, Issues

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• The Democrats appear to be the only people who still believe there is any efficacy to the UN.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, People, Democrat

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.42, Crown Forum

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• To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Lying, Skills, Ideas

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.31, Vintage

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• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Ability

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

  Frances Perkins

  Believe, Mean, People

  Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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• Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, Taken, Dark

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• The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types of human cancer cases selected...the omission of necessary additional measures ('e.g dietary'), the far too short observation periods, and the undefined chemical properties of the (Laetrile)... all contributed to devaluation of...conclusions.

  Hans Alfred Nieper

  Cancer, Dark, Numbers

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• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Real, Men, Islands

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Truth, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Stress, Persistence, People

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.207, Rowman Altamira

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• Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

  Albert Bandura

  Discrepancies Between, Self, Tasks

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• When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

  Albert Bandura

  People, Effort, Littles

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

  Dave Hickey

  Agency, Pleasure, Beholder

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• You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

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• Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison

  Albert Bandura

  Understanding, Evaluation, Social

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Evaluation

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Sides, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

  Albert Camus

  Intellectual, Way, West

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.170, Vintage

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• ...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

  Bhagat Singh

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Matter

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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