#affect

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map. ↗

— Francis Crick

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Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. ↗

— George Crumb

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I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. ↗

— Joan Cusack

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Little things affect little minds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. ↗

— Roma Downey

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I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. ↗

— David Duchovny

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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. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

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