It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous. . . except when there are effects of interacting variables. . . It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs. . . and more holes, that's what you ladies need!
It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.
You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.
One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.
There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?
Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.