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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 revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
robert f. kennedy— Speech in the United States Senate (9 May 1966)
A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
— Canto I, line 93.
The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.
richard feynman— p. 13 (QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985))
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).
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)
Who said literature has no real power to affect history? Not Bolaño — for him, literature is an unnervingly protean, amoral force with uncanny powers of self-invention, self-justification and self-mythification. The mythmakers, he suggests, certainly do matter.
roberto bolaño— Stacy D'Erasmo, in "The Sound and the Führer" in The New York Times Book Review (24 February 2008)
That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.
siméon denis poisson— Introductory sentence of Siméon-Denis Poisson, translated by Henry Hickman Harte (1842). A Treatise of Mechanics. Longman and co. p. 1.
There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.
sathya sai baba— Discourse (28 September 1960). Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. I, p. 182.
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.
Adam Smith— Chapter VIII, p. 97
It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.
douglas adams— His stated response to representatives of the music, publishing and broadcasting industries who had asked Douglas at a conference how he thought technological changes will affect them, apparently hoping his response would be something to the effect of, "not very much"
I have prescription medication that I take whenever symptoms arise and they keep the migraines under control. I'd like to be abundantly clear: My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
michele bachmann— Loffman, Matt (19 July 2011), "Bachmann says her migraines are controllable", First Read (MSNBC), retrieved on 2011-09-05 responding to allegations in Strong, Jonathan (18 July 2011), "Stress-related condition "incapacitates" Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged", Daily Caller, retrieved on 2011-09-05
Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 212 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
To remove these one had to account for an “observer” (that is at least for one subject): (i) Observations are not absolute but relative to an observer’s point of view (i.e., his coordinate system: Einstein ); (ii) Observations affect the observed so as to obliterate the observer’s hope for prediction (i.e., his uncertainty is absolute: Heisenberg ). After this, we are now in the possession of the truism that a description (of the universe) implies one who describes it (observes it).
heinz von foerster— p.258 (Notes on an epistemology for living things, 1981)
Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.
haruki murakami— A Wild Sheep Chase
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
stevie nicks— Kia Makarechi, "Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music", Huffington Post, 3 December 2012
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”
alfred de zayas— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [23]
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.
alfred de zayas— Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2013)
Had he come we would have been really happy. This decision is taken because of [India's] internal political reasons, but it will not affect the success of this programme, we don't think it is a problem.
— Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GL Pieris, told the BBC on Sunday that Mr Singh's decision was "not a defeat for us", quoted on BBC News, "India PM to boycott Sri Lanka Commonwealth summit", November 10, 2013.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
w. clement stone— In:Heal Yourself: Drug-Free Healing By the Power of New Science & Ancient Wisdom, Balboa Press, 16 January 2014, p.53
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— Leonhard Euler, Methodus Inveniendi Lineas Curvas (1744), Tr. W.A. Oldfather, C.A. Ellis & D.M. Brown
Although Russia, China, and the United States substantially affect regional security issues, they cannot dictate outcomes the way imperial governments frequently did a century ago. Concerns about a renewed great game are thus exaggerated.
— Weitz, Richard (Error: Invalid time.), "Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia", The Washington Quarterly 29 (3): 156
Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.
— Misnad al-Im?m al-H?d?, p.304
