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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. -- Havelock Ellis
But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes. -- George Crook
Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it. -- Stone Gossard
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. -- Conrad Black
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community. -- Magic Johnson
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. -- James F. Cooper
Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you! -- David Pratt
I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change. -- Edward Snowden
Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners. -- Robert Ardrey
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. -- Jacques Maritain
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. -- Ramsay MacDonald
There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others. -- Leonard Read
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances. -- Helen Keller
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. -- Charles Grandison Finney
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation. -- R. Kent Hughes
Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect. -- Lester Levenson
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. -- Albert Bandura
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through. -- Walt Whitman
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice. -- Quentin Crisp
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter. -- Richard Whately
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it. -- Thomas Jefferson
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. -- Francis Bacon
Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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