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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
President
Henry Brooks Adams

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Effective action is always unjust.
Action
Jean Anouilh

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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Army and Navy
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Emotions
Honore De Balzac

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Laughter
Honore De Balzac

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Remote and ineffectual don.
Colleges and Universities
Hilaire Belloc

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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
Swearing
Ambrose Bierce

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
Work
William Frederick Book

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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Taste
Jean De La Bruyere

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Fear
Edmund Burke

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle

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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Causes
Miguel De Cervantes

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I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Acting and Actors
Glenn Close

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
Mind
Norman Cousins

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature
William Cowper

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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
Pollution
Rene Dubos

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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Logic
Lord Dunsany

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Bigotry
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Luck
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Skepticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Belief
James A. Froude

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Past
Charles J. Givens

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.
Laughter
Graffiti

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun