Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money
So much wrong could religion induce.
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.
Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.
The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.
Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximize their rental income.
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.
The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests of a small ruling class in the name of democracy.
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