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  • Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. -- Harold Stephen Black
  • Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. -- Carl Jung
  • The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. -- Washington Irving
  • After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised. -- William Lilly
  • I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office. -- Bill de Blasio
  • Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. -- Edmond Halley
  • Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions. -- Will Self
  • Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. -- Benjamin Tucker
  • A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. -- Robert Bourassa
  • The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. -- James Hogg
  • Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. -- Ernst Mach
  • A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected. -- Laurieann Gibson
  • When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two things are to be done: First, the work of reconstruction is to be effected; Secondly, a willingness for the proper acceptance of the issue's decision is to be created. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
  • Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. -- William S. Burroughs
  • A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete. -- James Gleick
  • The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity. -- Mark Twain
  • Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. -- Robert Schumann
  • Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud. -- Aristotle
  • Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted; -- George Rogers Clark
  • What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred. -- Heinrich Heine
  • All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment. -- Samuel Beckett
  • All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? -- Pliny the Elder
  • Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children. -- Herbert Read
  • A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself. -- Confucius
  • The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. -- Bertrand Russell
  • It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. -- Plato
  • The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. -- Richard Reti
  • With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house. -- Diahann Carroll
  • . . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. -- Francis James Grimke
  • It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. -- Charles Darwin
  • It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. -- Thomas Huxley
  • The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. -- Ernst Mach
  • It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. -- Francis Bacon
  • Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk. -- Leonid Shamkovich
  • But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about. -- Adam Smith
  • All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain. -- Francis Lambert
  • In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. -- Robert Barron
  • Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit. -- Charles Hodge
  • It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus! -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. -- Samuel Beckett
  • I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office. -- Bill de Blasio
  • Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance? -- Stephanie Barron
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