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| Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the AFFECTIONs. | Archibald Alexander | |
| A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of AFFECTION lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile. | Jan Van Ruysbroeck | |
| It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare. | Manutius | |
| No AFFECTION and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate. | Gerald Barzan | |
| Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| The wealth of kings is in the AFFECTIONs of their subjects. | Motto | |
| The main source of our wealth is goodness. The AFFECTIONs and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. | Alfred A. Montapert | American Author |
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| The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. | Alphonse De Lamartine | 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian |
| A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for AFFECTION. | Andre Maurois | 1885-1967, French Writer |
| Most people would rather give than get AFFECTION. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and AFFECTION [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The Sun, the hearth of AFFECTION and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. | Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891, French Poet |
| The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. | B | urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner (1904-1990, American Psychologist |
| Little things affect little minds. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or AFFECTION. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Set your AFFECTION on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
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| You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and AFFECTION. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, AFFECTION on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| With AFFECTION beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. | Charles Horace Mayo | 1865-1939, American Surgeon |
| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the AFFECTION in a kiss that sanctifies it. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the AFFECTIONs. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love. | D. D. Field | |
| Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and AFFECTIONs, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. | David Hume | 1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher, Historian |
| Our happiness in this world depends on the AFFECTIONs we are able to inspire. | Duchess Prazlin | |
| The final test for a novel will be our AFFECTION for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humour or AFFECTION. | Elizabeth Drew | 1887-1965, Anglo-American Author, Critic |
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| None of the AFFECTIONs have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the AFFECTIONs. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound AFFECTION entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and AFFECTIONate. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. | Golda Meir | 1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74 |
| The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behaviour affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually. | Greg Anderson | American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness'' |
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| I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over. | Helen Alfredsson | American Golfer |
| In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some AFFECTION, of which the object has disappeared. | Henri Frederic Amiel | 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic |
| A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. | Henry Brooks Adams | 1838-1918, American Historian |
| We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Talk not of wasted AFFECTION; AFFECTION never was wasted. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| When a husband is embraced without AFFECTION, there must be some reason for it. | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
| The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. | Isadora Duncan | 1878-1927, American Dancer |
| Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our AFFECTION seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life. | J.E Buckrose | |
| Grief is only the memory of widowed AFFECTIONs. | James Martineau | |
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