"C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360."

-- Henry Spencer

#Example Quotes #Effects Quotes

“I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.”
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”
“Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.”
“I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.”
“I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.”
“I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.”
“There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.”

Source : John Robinson, Robert Ashton (1851). “The Works of John Robinson: Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers”, p.89
“It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.”

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