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• A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

  Ernest Holmes

  Powerful, Healing, Men

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Science of the Mind”, p.132, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

  Doc Hastings

  Accountability, Suffering, Answers

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• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Mean, Exercise

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• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Men, Indulge In

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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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• 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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• No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

  Howard Gardner

  Fate, Opportunity, Stronger

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Eggs, Needs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

  Kalle Lasn

  Song, Top Down, Singing

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• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  Nat King Cole

  Prejudice, Tvs, Advertising

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• Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

  Jane D. Hull

  Ozone, Dust, Years

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• Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

  Michael Schudson

  Ignorance, Criticism, Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Taught Us, Way, Left

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

  Patty Hearst

  War, Successful, Thinking

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• God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

  S. D Gordon

  Winning, Men, Enemy

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Sensual, Vision, Quality

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• The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

  Grace Abbott

  Moving On, Government, Moved On

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

  Kevin Rudd

  War, Iraq, Credibility

  "Howard under fire over Iraq". edition.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

  Dan Wieden

  Knives, Giants, Should

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• There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

  Paul Farmer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Blame

  Paul Farmer (2001). “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.

  Marion G. Romney

  Spiritual, Moving, Blessing

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