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Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back; in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

Frederick Buechner

A Bible which is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

C.H. Spurgeon

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai Stevenson

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Al Goldstein

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Epitaph, n.: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

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.

Anonymous

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams

Fear is a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Anwar Sadat

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Baruch Spinoza

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.

Bill Gates

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Bo Bennett

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.

Carl Sandburg

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Caspar David Friedrich

History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

Cesar Chavez

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles De Gaulle

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Dean William R. Inge

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Teller

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature - that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

F. L. Lucas

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Ferdinand Foch

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

George, Lord Halifax

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Giordano Bruno

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

H. L. Mencken

If all the parts of the universe are interchained in a certain measure, any one phenomenon will not be the effect of a single cause, but the resultant of causes infinitely numerous.

Henri Poincare

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Henry Melvill

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

Herman Melville

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Frederick Buechner

A Bible which is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

C.H. Spurgeon

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Albert Bandura

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Adlai Stevenson

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Al Goldstein

Albert Schweitzer

Aldous Huxley

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Epitaph, n.: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

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.

Anonymous

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams

Fear is a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Anwar Sadat

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Baruch Spinoza

Bill Gates

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Bo Bennett

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.

Carl Sandburg

Caspar David Friedrich

Cesar Chavez

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles De Gaulle

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

Dean William R. Inge

Edgar Allan Poe

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Teller

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature - that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

F. L. Lucas

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Ferdinand Foch

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

George, Lord Halifax

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Giordano Bruno

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

H. L. Mencken

If all the parts of the universe are interchained in a certain measure, any one phenomenon will not be the effect of a single cause, but the resultant of causes infinitely numerous.

Henri Poincare

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry Melvill

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

Herman Melville

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