Adverse Effects Quotes:

We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

- Paul Krugman

source: "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

topic: Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

- Robert H. Frank

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Jobs, Powerful, Exercise, Workplace Safety, Adverse Effects

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding. When I used to kill myself in the gym, it had an adverse effect on me because my body would be so stressed out and constantly in fight-or-flight mode.

- Laura Prepon

source: "Laura Prepon launches a book to help others heal from weight and digestive issues using integrative medicine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Yoga, Swimming, Fighting, Adverse Effects

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Zero, Powerful, Thinking, Zero Defects, Adverse Effects

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

- Kevyn Aucoin

topic: Knowing, Hatred, World, Adverse, Adverse Effects

... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Country, Real, Mean, Adverse Effects

Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

- Carol Browner

source: "Study urged of pesticide, youth violence link". www.cnn.com. August 9, 1999.

topic: Children, Adversity, Agency, Pesticides, Protecting Children

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

- James S. Coleman

topic: Strong, Children, Educational, Adverse, Educational Background

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

- Robert Crippen

source: "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

topic: Two, Littles, Orbit, Adverse, Adverse Effects

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

- Martin Feldstein

topic: Country, Moving, Dollars, Adverse, Adverse Effects

I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

- Al Yankovic

source: "Weird Al's New Album Has Been Pirated 40,000 Times" by Jose Pagliery, money.cnn.com. July 24, 2014.

topic: Song, Hands, Careers, Mixed Feelings, Adverse Effects

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Government, Adverse, Recruitment

It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

- Ali Khamenei

topic: Marijuana, Cost, Use, Personal Health, Haram

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

- Peter Singer

source: Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

topic: Loss, Happy Life, Views, Infanticide, Happier Life

I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs.

- Lester Grinspoon

topic: Fda, Years, Medicine, Adverse Effects