Blake Lively
Actress
"The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it."
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Agents
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Edward Bach
Homeopath, Author
"Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us"
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."
Mary Lou Williams
Musician
"I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking."
Kenneth Burke
Philosopher
"The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents."
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"Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament."
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"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."
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"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency."
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"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
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"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."
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"You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent."
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"[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
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"Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap."
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"My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself."
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"It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience."
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"Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ."
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"A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath."
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"The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it."
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"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent."
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"In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it."
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"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance."
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"Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?"
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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"
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"I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists."
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"The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."
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