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«Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling : from observi»
Author: Albert Bandura
| Keywords:
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«Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.»
Author: S. H. Simmons
| About:
Kindness
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at least, benefits, effect, effected, effecting, recipient, recipients, to that effect, wasted
«God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.»
«Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.»
«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»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Equality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Britain, declaration, effecting, Great Britain, placed, practical, Practical effect, separation
«The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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believed, effected, effecting, effects, observer, observing, physic, physics, really, seems, stone, stoning, The Observer, to that effect
«If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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as if by magic, dissolve, dissolving, each other, effect, effected, effecting, friendships, given, magic, read, suppose, supposes, to that effect
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted
«Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their be»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
design, effecting, find oneself, injury, Managing, occupying, repaid, repaying, repays, Small business
«The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplish, achieves, combination, combinations, desired, effect, effected, effecting, eloquent, felicitous, geometrically, impressive, pause, paused, pausing, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive, to that effect
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