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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about nation, people

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our...

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

Quote by Pearl Bailey

The kids get everything-the flashing lights and the...

The kids get everything-the flashing lights and the pyrotechnics and the smoke. We're an effects-driven society. But we're also giving them Scripture.

Quote by Willie Aames about poetry, smoke, society

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Quote by Charles Babbage

Uniformity and steadiness in the rate at which machinery...

Uniformity and steadiness in the rate at which machinery works, are essential both for its effect and its duration.

Quote by Charles Babbage about essential

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about limits, civilization

It's the major changes in the other industries, it's the...

It's the major changes in the other industries, it's the change in the economy- it's obviously got to effect our whole culture.

Quote by Lester Bangs about economy, culture, change

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about school, reason

I would suggest that teachers show their students...

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about teachers

The special effects people are so good! If you avoid...

The special effects people are so good! If you avoid looking at them until the moment of the performance, it's pretty sharp.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about moment, good, good luck, people

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Quote by Floyd Abrams about question, law, use, end, day

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make...

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Quote by Dean Acheson about nation

And internalization is used in this country as a very...

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

Quote by Kathy Acker about tools, country

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, humanity, nature, things

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there...

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Quote by Derek Bailey about idea

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the...

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.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about advertising, victims, end, self-control, power, man

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Quote by John Adams about independence, glory

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual...

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Quote by John Adams

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