Agency Quotes - Page 34

• The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

  Herbert Hoover

  Successful, Numbers, Self

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Government, People

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• For me planting a tree is a very doable thing. It's not complicated, it doesn't require technology, it doesn't require much knowledge, but it can be a very important entry point into communities understanding how they destroy their own resources, but how they can also restore those resources, and not wait for their government or international agencies to come and help them.

  Wangari Maathai

  Technology, Government, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.

  Robert G. Picard

  News, Stories, Useless

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• Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.

  James Madison

  Religious, Children, Giving

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

  Kathryn Schulz

  Philosophy, Mean, Reality

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• The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Support, Environmental

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• We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Blessed, Exercise, Choices

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• My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

  David Byrne

  Government, Watches, Records

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.76, Three Rivers Press

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• I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.

  Cornel West

  Self, Issues, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

  Cecily Strong

  Men, Law, Giving

  "Cecily Strong's top 10 jokes of the 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner". Cecily Strong's remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., edition.cnn.com. April 26, 2015.

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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

  Salmon P. Chase

  Country, Mistake, Bankers

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• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  Adam Kluger

  Song, Artist, Creative

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• So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Office, Political

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• But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

  Derrick Jensen

  Spring, Mean, Definitions

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

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• Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Space, Mind, Infinity

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.52, Weiser Books

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• Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.

  Tarleton Gillespie

  Technology, Copyright, Users

  Tarleton Gillespie (2007). “Wired Shut”, p.357, MIT Press

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• Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

  Brian Reynolds

  Children, People, News

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• If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Fishing, Voice, People

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• I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  People, Giving, Library

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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• My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

  Honor Harger

  Jobs, Technology, Trying

  "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Reading, Worry, Email

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Organization, House

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• We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

  Fred Thompson

  Decision, Honest, Reasonable

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