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Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Denis Diderot

— The character Suzanne Simon, in La Religieuse) [The Nun] (1796)

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams

— 1907  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.20,'Failure'.

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"...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences" "Is there anything you can take for it?" "Only wedding vows"

len deighton

— Charity (1997; Harper Paperback, p.280)

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I have in this War a burning private grudge which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe , which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light .

j. r. r. tolkien

— No. 45: To his son Michael Tolkien (09 June, 1941)

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Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes peoplethinkof nothing but music and sensual matters? Music is a treason to the country, a treason to our youth, and we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.


— 1979  Ramadan speech, 23  Jul. Quoted in Lebrecht Discord (1982).

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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances? Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of the superfluous causes.


— 1687  Newton's First Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (translated by Andrew Motte,1729).

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

henry adams

— Ch. 20. (The Education of Henry Adams (1907))

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

nadine gordimer

— "Censorship and its Aftermath" (June 1990)

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We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles.

junius

— No. 41, to Lord Mansfield (November 14, 1770)

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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

johann kaspar lavater

— As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

thomas edward ("t. e.") lawrence

— Letter to Bruce Rogers (20 August 1931)

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I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

lee hsien loong

— President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister Lee of Singapore to the White House May 4, 2007

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War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

percival lowell

— Chapter XXXII, Conclusion

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The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

henry taylor

— Money.

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Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

— Chapter VII (Volume I)

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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

ani difranco

— Regarding her bisexuality
1994 interview

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I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

Peter Drucker

— p. 351 (Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995))

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A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.

hans hofmann

— Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

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The difference between [perjury and prevarication] consists in this, that perjury is a distinct assertion of that which can be proved not to be, or a denial of that which can be proved to be; whereas prevarication is the giving of contradictory or inconsistent evidence , which affects the credibility of the evidence, though neither the extent of the witness’s falsehood , nor the precise points in which he has departed from the truth be capable of ascertainment.


— R. Clarke, in Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment, p.316

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A system is a set of two or more elements that satisfies the following three conditions. (1) The behavior of each element has an effect on the behavior of the whole. (2) The behavior of the elements and their effects on the whole are interdependent. the way each element behaves and the way it affects the whole depends on how at least one other element behaves. (3) However subgroups of the elements are formed, each has an effect on the behavior of the whole and none has an independent effect on it.


— Russell L. Ackoff (1981) , Creating the Corporate Future. p.15-16

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A system is a set of two or more elements that satisfies the following three conditions. (1) The behavior of each element has an effect on the behavior of the whole. (2) The behavior of the elements and their effects on the whole are interdependent. the way each element behaves and the way it affects the whole depends on how at least one other element behaves. (3) However subgroups of the elements are formed, each has an effect on the behavior of the whole and none has an independent effect on it.


— p.15-16 (Creating the Corporate Future, 1981)

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And my idea is that it is the jarring or vibration through solids, and not the mere sound that affects the snakes.


— Dr. Arthur Straddling on his snakes

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

henry adams

— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20, "Failure".

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Saint-Simon leaves a legacy which affects all socialisms, for he introduces into social theory (he theme of idleness and parasitism as social problems consequent on the evasion of the central social responsibility ascribed to citizens: the duty to be productive .


— Peter Beilharz, in Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy (1992).

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.


— Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

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Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.


— Susan McClary, quoted in Sullivan, Meg (May 2002). Spotlight: Susan McClary, Musicologist.

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And this really directly affects my relationship with people, with individuals around me, with my loved ones, and also with audiences.


— Chick Corea — quoted in Koppel, Ted (14 February 1992). Scientology Leader Gave ABC First-Ever Interview. Nightline. ABC News. Retrieved on 11 October 2013.

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War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

percival lowell

— Percival Lowell, Mars and its Canals (1906), Chapter XXXII, Conclusion

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With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

john dryden

— John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1697), line 37.

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