Quotes of: Effects Keyword

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined ...

Martin Jacques

Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.

William Odom

Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security. Sources are split in their assessment of the importance of nuclear weapons and the validity of traditional nuclear deterrenc...

Futures of War

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observa...

The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to b...

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

Drugs and medical technology can be enormously beneficial when used to take care of real complications, but too often they are abused when applied to women birthing normally. These women are thus subjected to unnecessary risks. The key to this proble...

Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way

But what if your kid runs into the street in front of a car? Don't you to use Method I?" ... If a child develops a habit of running into the street, a parent might first try to talk to the child about the dangers of cars, walk her around the edge of ...

Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children

Economics Teacher: In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Changes

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot Your Association For Success

The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father’s suffering and the female who caused it. I do love that woman.

Dragon Actually

love me get lost in me but beware side effects include a lot of shivering, baby a lot of drinking, maybe a lot of sinking, baby

Darkness Plays Favorites

But like Machiavelli tells us, you must use the assets and resources at your disposal. Use them all, and use them to maximum effect.

Dicing Time for Gladness

Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.

Earth's blood

An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.

Effective Business Communication

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Effective Java

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

Effective Java

The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side benefits, not side effects.

Essential Ayurveda: What It Is and What It Can Do for You

Sounds like the effect of wolf’s blood to me,” he said, winking at her. “You think?” “Attacking without thinking? Just reacting instantly? Yeah, that’s wolf mentality.

Fated Desire

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

A Fine and Private Place

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Foucault's Pendulum