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Julian Huxley Biologist
Agency

"There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures."

Art Media Agency
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Hugh Ferriss Architect
Agency

"The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be."

Character Powerful Agency
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Hugh Miller Geologist, Author
Agency

"The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification."

Rocks Sea Agency
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Diana Rowland Author
Agency

"You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency."

Purpose Smart Agency
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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Agency

"Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools."

Men School Agency
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Agency

"The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world."

Real Government Agency
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Steve King Politician
Agency

"In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one."

Different Problem Agency
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Agency

"When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that."

Government Order Agency
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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician
Agency

"My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget."

Years Cutting Agency
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Jerry Brown Politician
Agency

"The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!"

War Ties Agency
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Barack Obama Politician
Agency

"Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country."

Country Fall Agency
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Barack Obama Politician
Agency

"When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, "Look, we can't say for certain what this means." But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments."

Mean Eight Agency
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Barack Obama Politician
Agency

"Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force."

Powerful Criticism Agency
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Agency

"We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency."

Moving Life Is Agency
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Dan Brown Author
Agency

"This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases."

Agency Attempting Databases
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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Agency

"When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed."

Want Should Have Agency
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Cornel West Philosopher
Agency

"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."

Self Issues Agency
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Cornel West Philosopher
Agency

"I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them."

Thinking Government Agency
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Agency

"The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known."

Nature Secret Agency
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