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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
I am naturally to myself, and I would rather have my own space, but I do realize what the effect I have is.
I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect... what are the alternatives?
If my singing leaves a long-lasting effect in the mind of the listeners, it is the blessing of the Almighty.
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.