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Quotes About Effects

My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes.
~ Steven Weinberg
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
~ Samuel Adams
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
~ James S. Coleman
Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.
~ Stephen Moore
Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.
~ Xander Schauffele
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
~ George Combe
Lo que necesitas es un trabajo interior! El mundo exterior es el mundo de los efectos; es el resultado de los pensamientos. Sintoniza tus pensamientos y frecuencia con la felicidad. Irradia sentimientos de felicidad en tu interior y transmítelos al Universo con toda tu fuerza y experimentarás el cielo en la tierra.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Remember, thoughts are primary cause of everything, and the rest is effects from those thoughts.
~ Rhonda Byrne
The question for her is not whether to exercise violence but how to survive it, how to denounce it in a way that will effectively set women free from its destructive effects.
~ Richard B. Hays
The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.
~ Richard B. McKenzie
The first is that seemingly small features of social situations can have massive effects on people's behavior; nudges are everywhere, even if we do not see them. Choice architecture, both good and bad, is pervasive and unavoidable, and it greatly affects our decisions. The second claim is that libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron. Choice architects can preserve freedom of choice while also nudging people in directions that will improve their lives.
~ Richard H. Thaler
External effects are everywhere. Almost every major transaction we make affects other people who are not a party to the transaction. When someone buys a Lexus, he sets a new standard for the street. When a firm advertises a Barbie doll, it creates a want that was not there before.
~ Richard Layard
The many uncatalogued volatile compounds breathed out by needles at night slow her heart rate, soften her breathing, and, if she's right, even alter her mood and thoughts. So many substances in woodland pharmacies that no one has yet identified. Powerful molecules in bark, pith, and leaves whose effects have yet to be discovered.
~ Richard Powers
Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does not mean it is not true or even good. Just because something pleases people does not make it true either.
~ Richard Rohr
To ask a writer to deny the validity of his sensual perceptions is to ask him to be 'expedient' enough to commit spiritual suicide for the sake of politicians … My task is to weigh the effects of our civilization upon the personality, as it affects it here and now. If, in my weighing of those effects, I reveal rot, pus, filth, hate, fear, guilt, and degenerate forms of life, must I be consigned to hell?" Richard Wright, author Native Son
~ Richard Wright
Moods are by nature compelling, contagious, and profoundly interpersonal, and disorders of mood alter the perceptions and behaviors not only of those who have them but also of those who are related or closely associated. Manic-depressive illness—marked as it is by extraordinary and confusing fluctuations in mood, personality, thinking, and behavior—inevitably has powerful and often painful effects on relationships.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Headache, hmm? His expression went serious. Do you know what's the best cure for that? What? Orgasm. He said it so matter-of-factly I had to sputter a laugh. Multiple, if possible, he continued. It's a proven medical fact that one physiologic event, like orgasm, can cancel out the effects of another physiological process, such as a headache. His expression was perfectly serious, but I said, You're full of shit. Perhaps. If so, you should call my bluff. Just open the door and we'll test it out.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Florida is California on a Troma budget. That's what the demon lover thinks, anyway. Special effects blew the budget on bugs and bad weather.
~ Kelly Link
Her foreboding about the effects of the papal bull had turned out to be tragically accurate. Puritans could now gleefully point to Catholics as a danger to national security. Intolerance had gained a pretext.
~ Ken Follett
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
~ Judith Butler
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
~ William Hazlitt
What it means is that individual effort, individual discernment, individual choice can have huge effects in averting the catastrophes that might otherwise sweep through a herd.
~ David Quammen
Istoria se desf??oar? de obicei cu o încetineal? viclean? în care se împletesc inextricabil efectele ?i cauzele, originile ?i declinul. Aici, în acea zi, ceea ce tr?iam era pur si simplu un sfâr?it de istorie.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence.
~ Eliot Schrefer