Agency Quotes - Page 28

• You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Men, Calling

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

  Noam Chomsky

  Feelings, Essentials, Used

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• For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  School, Class, Community

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• Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.

  Daniel Lyons

  Government, Needs, Helping

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• If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead of merely preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will also cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to his own advantage. That is, if one can only appeal to the state for justice, justice will be perverted in the favor of the state, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Order, Justice, Judging

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Sukrit Sabhlok (2012). “Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom: Volume 1 (2012)”, p.19, Createspace Publishing

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• I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Identity, Kind

  "Watch Rachel Dolezal’s Long, Unbelievably Incoherent". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.nationalreview.com. June 17, 2015.

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• While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Expression, Civilization, Intellectual

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• As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Thinking, Autism, Research

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• I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.

  Tony Dungy

  Simple, Player, Etc

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Euclid, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

  Albert Bandura

  People, Littles, Produce

  American Psychological Association Address, www.uky.edu. 1998.

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• When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary.

  Jill Scott

  Three, Roles, Detectives

  "Interview: Jill Scott talks ‘Baggage Claim,’ Auditioning for Anthony Minghella & Acting". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 25, 2013.

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• We're not in control [of circumstances], but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Exercise, Community

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.

  Amy Sedaris

  Confused, Reading, Doors

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

  Timothy Murphy

  Order, President, Quality

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• There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.

  Julian Huxley

  Art, Media, Two

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• NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  War, Men, Deeds Done

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• We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.

  John Newton

  Believe, Cutting, Hands

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• Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

  Robin Cook

  Occupation, Als, Mujahideen

  "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.

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• I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Crazy, Thinking

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• Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

  William Ellery Channing

  Real, Lying, Greatness

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.4

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• You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

  Richard Curtis

  Running, Remember, Publishers

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• We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

  Richard Curtis

  Usual, Hot, Position

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• Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.

  Ted Turner

  Communication, Support, Effort

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