Agents Quotes - Page 38

• Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Government, Space

  "String Theories: We're Living In Cass Sunstein's World, Get Used To It" by Tom Siebert, www.mediapost.com. February 19, 2018.

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• It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

  Frederick Soddy

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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• I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Knitting, Acting, Evolution

  "Axis". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2007.

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• My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

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• After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Years, Pay

  "Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny". Interview by Alex Heatley, Phlogiston Forty Four, 1995.

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• Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Commitment, Views, Choices

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?

  Hannah

  Ghana, Leader, Movement

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• No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Creating, May, Matter

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.65

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• Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

  Tim Lebbon

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

  Carl Bereiter

  Government, Organization, Common Sense

  Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge

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• All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Real, Unique, Keys

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, en.wikiquote.org. 2008.

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• The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

  Robert Stawell Ball

  Rip, Parent, Mountain

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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• I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Gun, Thinking

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Wall, Machines

  1983 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Law, Russia, Rights

  "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

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• Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Three, Trouble, Prohibition

  Dashiell Hammett (2009). “Detective Stories”, p.11, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Eggs, White

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, White, House

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• Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will be crashed next year by drunken Secret Service agents.

  David Letterman

  New York, Years, Cities

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• President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Track, Guy, Secret

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• The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Garden, White, Rose

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• The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Men, Wheels

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• When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

  Arn Tellem

  Clients, Lawyer

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• You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

  Aaron Copland

  Powerful, Book, Reading

  Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin

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