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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. – New Testament	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. – Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. – Daisy Bates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. – Jacob Bigelow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. – Sam James Ervin, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. – F Scott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. – George Gallup	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. – Thich Nhat Hanh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning. – Paul Ingram	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. – Louis Kronenberger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow. – Dr. B. J. Palmer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. – Alexandra Stoddard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce. – Peter de Gaston Levis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. – Quintilian	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life – Molly Ackermann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. – Galileo Galilei	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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