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• Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Country, Ties, Credit

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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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• Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

  Uri Geller

  Psychics, Mind, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

  Hugh Ferriss

  Powerful, Character, Space

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.

  Robert David Steele

  People, Corporations, Fruit

  "The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy". Interview with Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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• The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

  Ted Cruz

  Nasa, Committees, Budgets

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• I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  America, Choices, I Can

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• Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

  Chris Chocola

  Government, Understanding, Might

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• I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Improvement, States, Coordination

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• U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

  Robert Breault

  Century, Taxes, Economist

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• The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.

  Hugh Miller

  Rocks, Sea, Earth

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, California

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• Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Moving, Teaching

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