Agency Quotes - Page 35

• Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

  Seth Klarman

  Responsibility, Government, Leader

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• The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

  Herbert Spencer

  Generations, Citizens, Done

  Herbert Spencer, John Offer (1994). “Spencer: Political Writings”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

  Robert Prechter

  Men, Opposites, Magic

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• Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be solved, government is the agency to step in and solve it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Arbitrary, Steps

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night-always-not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Prayer, Selfish, Night

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• Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Choices, Heaven

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• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Saying No, Agents

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Running, Databases, Pounds

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Evil, Events

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Atlanta, Play

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• Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

  Andy Weir

  Moving, Technology, Light

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• NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Lying, Focus, Important

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

  Matt Blaze

  Phones, Order, Data

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.

  Matt Blaze

  Phones, Police, Chinese

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Daily Activities, Detectives

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• When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.

  Jurgen Teller

  Girl, Fashion, Believe

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• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Election Process, Two

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do we begin to take education seriously about the production of a subject in which questions of individual and social agency are linked to democratic possibilities?
  And so for me, there are three registers there that we need to address.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency.

  Henry Giroux

  Vocabulary, Support, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When people just become numbers, and we stop relating to each other as human beings. And we don't have the agency to make choices that can positively affect another human being. I was watching something yesterday where Justin Timberlake took a picture of himself voting, and he might get thirty days in jail because it's a new law or something.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Law, Yesterday, Numbers

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems.

  Samuel Barnett

  Character, Detectives, Dirk Gently

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

  Bill Ayers

  Children, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

  Eric Greitens

  Hurt, Hard Work, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.

  Pat Toomey

  Environmental, Target, Coal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Foundation, World, Refugee

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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