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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. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish AGENTS. | Harry Mathews | 1930-, American Novelist |
| Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. | Glenda Jackson | 1936-, British Actress and politician |
| The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. | Wes Smith | |
| An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. | Alva Johnson | |
| It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free AGENTS, and man is more powerful than matter. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| The busiest of living AGENTS are certain dead men's thoughts. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. | Elijah Wood | 1981-, American Actor |
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| Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological AGENTS we have unleashed against the environment include many of the AGENTS we require for its reconstruction. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday. | Jerry Reynolds | |
| Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counsellor, your stockbroker, and your publisher. | Jim Bouton | American Actor, Businessman, Baseball Player |
| Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. | John Adams | 1735-1826, Second President of the USA |
| We are no more free AGENTS than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. | Paul De Man | 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic |
| Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. | Pierre Teilhard De Chardin | 1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author |
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| Men must necessarily be the active AGENTS of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. | Samuel Smiles | 1812-1904, Scottish Author |
| Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent. | Source Unknown | |
| We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active AGENTS, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
| An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. | Walter Bagehot | 1826-1877, British Economist, Critic |
| 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, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. | William James | 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author |
| Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| 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 endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed? | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
