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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
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.
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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.
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.
When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.
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.
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.