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Quotes About Effects

False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.
~ Ruth Rendell
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
~ Rene Dubos
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.
~ George A. Romero
What is particularly curious about quantum theory is that there can be actual physical effects arising from what philosophers refer to as counterfactuals-that is, things that might have happened, although they did not in fact happen.
~ Roger Penrose
Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about Afghanistan, the public knows even less, and few care about policy failure when the effects are felt only in Afghanistan.
~ Rory Stewart
La razón posee una naturaleza pulcra y hacendosa y siempre se esfuerza por llenar de causas y efectos todos los misterios con los que se topa, al contrario de la imaginación (la loca de la casa, como la llamaba Santa Teresa de Jesús), que es pura desmesura y deslumbrante caos.
~ Rosa Montero
a dança é um prazer dos olhos. Esta opinião é um dos efeitos daquele mau costume de envelhecer
~ Machado de Assis
I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What happens to us when we get drunk is a function of the particular path the alcohol takes as it seeps into our brain tissue. The effects begin in the frontal lobes, the part of our brain behind our forehead that governs attention, motivation, planning, and learning.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Many of those who study alcohol no longer consider it an agent of disinhibition. They think of it as an agent of myopia.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between going to college—and having a real shot at the middle class—and not.* "I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
~ Neil Postman
The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.
~ Andre Dubus III
ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering.
~ Sam Harris
Since his return from Afghanistan, he'd been unable to shake off the effects of spending almost a year in a war zone. They clung to him like a spiderweb, so fine as to be invisible, yet as tenacious as steel and, so far, impossible to escape.
~ Sandra Brown
He knew he would think better clearer thoughts after bathing in the sea. His mother had believed in the good effects of bathing, but she had died so young.
~ Saul Bellow
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
~ Schopenhauer
young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term effects which persist Bowlby, J., Ainsworth, M., Boston, M., and Rosenbluth, D. (1956). The effects of mother-child separation: A follow-up study. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 29, 211-249.
~ John Bowlby
If the concept that technologies have biases were to become common knowledge, we could implement them consciously and purposefully. If we don't bring this concept into general awareness, our technologies and their effects will continue to threaten and confound us.
~ John Brockman
To nations holding large amounts of that particular currency in their reserve vaults, the effects of the devaluation is the same as if the vaults had been burglarized.
~ John Brooks
As we look way back into the first instants of the Big Bang, we find the quantum world that we described in Chapter 3. From that state, where like effects do not follow from like causes, there must somehow emerge a world resembling our own, where the results of most observations are definite. This is by no means inevitable and may require the Universe to have emerged from a rather special primeval state.
~ John D. Barrow
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
~ John Dryden
I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.
~ Clint Eastwood