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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

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

I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable...

Quote by Albert Camus about humor

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Quote by Orson Scott about civilization

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Quote by William Falconer about life

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Quote by Bill Gates about nation, communication, tools, people

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about country

How we treat the earth basically effects our social...

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Quote by Jim Fowler about security, earth

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Quote by Salma Hayek about normality, violence, youth, education, hope, life

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either...

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes.

Quote by Alan Parsons about opinion, magic

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and...

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the...

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about enthusiasm, fight

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about anger, nothing

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds...

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about education

I have every sympathy with the American who was so...

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Quote by Henry George Strauss about irony, americans

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