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• It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Country, England, Patriot

  "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary". Book by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, p. 145-6, 1972.

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• Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Hands, Political

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

  Francis Galton

  Eugenics, Quality, Generations

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.335, Routledge

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Cost Benefit Analysis, Law

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Law

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• I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

  Frank Church

  Country, Technology, Law

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• Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, Office, Civil War

  Jefferson Davis, Dr WIlliam Peters (2014). “A Short HIstory of the Confederate States of America”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

  Leo Burnett

  Believe, Successful, Creative

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• We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

  Margaret Chan

  Organization, Voice, Giving

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• Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

  Kevin Roberts

  Business, Passion, Ideas

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• I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

  George Washington

  Christian, Believe, Omnipotence

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.403

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• The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Fun, Business, Matter

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• Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Vision, Depth, May

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• We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Fall, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.372

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• Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission. You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are.

  Jane Roberts

  Change, Unique, Office

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• I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Kindness, Business

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Real, Space

  FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

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• The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Intellectual, Architecture

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

  Bob Riley

  Government, People, Waste

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Badass, Views, Media

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• It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.

  Chase Jarvis

  Country, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, bermangraphics.com. 2011.

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• The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Tasks, Ministry

  "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

  Susan Rice

  Opportunity, Risk, Get Better

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