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• The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect

• love has a very dulling effect on the brain.

  Elizabeth Peters

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Effect

• Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

  John Wesley

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• Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country’s. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap.

  James Hansen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Total

• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Capitalism, Effect

• The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally – and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

  Nicholas Stern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observed, Effect
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  Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

  Heinrich Heine

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Like, Poet, Effect
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  Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Understand, Hand

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  Ira Glass

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in People, Effect, Something

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side – apparently your left side is your mother – which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I’m easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  Imelda Staunton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Comforted, Think

• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian McKellen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Discovering, Precious

• The moral effect of the thundering of one’s own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Thought, Extraordinary

• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Effect, Wrong

• Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Pacifists, Good

• In America you can say anything you want – as long as it doesn’t have any effect.

  Paul Goodman

  Topics in America

  Tags in Effect

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, Effect, Counsel

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.

  Beatrix Potter

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• It will take a long time for women’s effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Effect, Appraise

• They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

  Cyril Cusack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Effect, Act

• The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

  Corrine Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emancipation, President, Effect