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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.
As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.
The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.
James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.
There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it reached a larger audience.
We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.
The calmness and confidence I take into matches has an effect not only on our rivals but also on my team-mates, who are counting on me.
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.
The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.
I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
