"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
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"An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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"States are not moral agents."
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"Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees."
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"Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent."
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"Business is society's change agent."
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"Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're going to do for you. Ultimately it's a good gut reaction."
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"Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute."
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"The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent."
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"O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?"
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"Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents."
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"My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches."
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"Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers."
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"Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then."
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"Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute."
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"Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you.""
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"A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better."
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"A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough."
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"Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change."
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