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But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.
Karl Rahner— 1963 'Natur undGnade'in Fragen derTheologieHeute (translated by DinahWharton as Nature and Grace,1963).
Little things affect little minds.
benjamin disraeli— 1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.
john donne— c.1595-1605 'Air and Angels', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).
A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
— Canto I, line 93.
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.
vitruvius— De architectura, Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11 (~15 BC).
States should practice multilateralism and abandon unilateral actions that adversely affect a democratic and equitable international order, refraining from the threat or use of force. They should apply international law uniformly, abandon overreliance on “positivism” and efforts to circumvent treaty obligations or invent loopholes. As “nature abhors a vacuum” (Spinoza, Ethics), human rights law abhors “legal black holes”
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [23]
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 39.
Futurists believe that accelerating and convulsive changes will characterize our world for decades to come. These will affect profoundly every political institution, and every religious institution in its mission to relate faith to societal changes. Those who enter the twenty first century can expect a continuation and acceleration of this trend toward permanent resolution.
— Norman E. Thomas, in Toward the Twenty-first Century in Christian Mission: Essays in Honor of Gerald H. Anderson, Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, Editor, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993, p.363
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.
— Chapter VI, Sec. 11 (Book I)
Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
— Plan 9 from Outer Space
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method...
leonhard euler— As quoted in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986) by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, p. 150
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole.
murray gell-mann— The Primer Project International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) seminar (October 12 - November 10, 1997)
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Truth of Intercourse.
I had a truly horrible dream last night … [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.
hunter s. thompson— "Nightmare in La-La-Land" (17 August 2003)
Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction.
Ben Travers— The Infatuee, included in The Cricketer's Bedside Book (1966)
Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature.
michael behe— p. (1996) (Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996))
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.
kenneth boulding— p.8 (Toward a General Social Science, 1974)
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge , neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.
Edmund Burke— Part II Section XII
Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.
buckminster fuller— R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), p. 130
If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell— Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 260 U.S. 22, 31 (1922).
The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his "mind." Mind makes up the soul, or better, the "animus" of woman, and just as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions.
carl jung— The Secret of the Golden Flower (1931) Commentary by C.G.Jung in CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P. 60
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, in a fuller manner than I mean to do with respect to any other corruption of Christianity, that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement , with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.
joseph priestley— On conventional doctrines of Jesus Christ's atonement for sins, in Part II : Opinions Relating to the Doctrine of Atonement, Introduction
I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause, and Aves vehement; Nor do I think the man of safe discretion, That does affect it.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act I, scene 1, line 68.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Ode to Lycoris.
But those acts do not affect Me, Arjuna – I am neutral, unattached.
— Krishna; Chapter 9, verse 9; Purushottama Lal translation
You might be a redneck if the stock market crashes and it doesn't affect you one bit.
jeff foxworthy
