#affect

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. ↗

— Bob Balaban

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. ↗

— Martha Beck

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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. ↗

— Max Born

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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. ↗

— Fanny Brice

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