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• Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

  Bill Goldberg

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

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• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  Cordell Hull

  War, Mean, Reality

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• Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

  Robert D. Hales

  God, Jesus, Father

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• Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Commitment, Yield

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• Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

  Paul Davies

  Motivation, Years, Space

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• You and I were among those who used their agency to accept Heavenly Father's plan to come to earth, to have a mortal life, to progress. "We shouted for joy ... to have the opportunity of coming to the earth to receive bodies [for we knew] that we might become, through faithfulness, like unto our Father, God." Now we are here on earth, where opportunities to use our agency abound; for here "there is an opposition in all things." This opposition is essential to the purpose of our lives.

  Robert D. Hales

  Father, Opportunity, Joy

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• Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Brain, May, Assistants

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• Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

  Jan Brewer

  Lying, Law, Desert

  "Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona". Article by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 2010.

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• Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Yield, Light

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Yield

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Keys, Hands, Use

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• Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

  Richard G. Scott

  Running, Long, Outcomes

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• We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Moral, Influence, Submit

  "Finding Safety in Counsel". Henry B. Eyring's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 1997.

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• I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our own decisions. Christ cannot help us if we do not trust Him; He cannot teach us if we do not serve Him. He will not force us to do what's right, but He will show us the way only when we decide to serve Him. Certainly, for us to serve in His kingdom, Christ requires that we experience a change of thought and attitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Exercise, Decision

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• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  William H. Prescott

  Men, Law, Temptation

  William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

  Sitting Bull

  Dog, Warrior, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Intelligent, People, Drug

  Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

  Melissa Bean

  Stars, Home, Average

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• Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Long, People

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• Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

  Michael Schudson

  Powerful, Dark, Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.13, Routledge

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• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Risk, Facts

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Differences, Giving, Important

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• God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Love, Believe, Done

  Marion D. Hanks (1991). “Bread Upon the Waters”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Attitude, Healthy, Missionary

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• A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Men, Choices

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