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The effective limitation of power is the most important problem of social order.
-- Friedrich A. Hayek...
The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.
-- Sam Shaffe...
he effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
-- Parkinson's Telephone Law...
The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. -- Oscar Aria
The effects are fleeting and lingering...
-- Overheard in a hallway - from Saul Rothstein (Chelmsford, MA, USA)...
The Effects of Alcohol: Sir Osis of Live
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous.
The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.
-- Old and Kahn's Law...
The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.
-- John Nie...
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly.
I would rather use them to mimic something better. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...

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