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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Government, Law

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

Trust, Eye, Negotiate

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.
Steve Jobs

Next, Perfection, Computer

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

Hell, Hustler, Literary

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

Wish, Shall, Written

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

Secret, Liberal, Matters

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

Power, Thought, Liberty

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

Love, Together, Fact

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.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Free

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
Imran Khan

Islamic, Pakistan, Critics

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou Holtz

Player, Dependent, Damage

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Rebecca West

Powerful, Hypocrisy, Likely

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

Success, True, Sleep

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova

Life, Good, Evil

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Daniel Radcliffe

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins

Time, Try, Acting

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.
Tom Morello

Family, Mom, Live

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen

Good, Times, Star

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne

Time, Same, Wanted

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad Iqbal

Decision, Cannot, Fate

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'
Hugh Jackman

Career, Goal, Said

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
Helena Bonham Carter

Father, Act, Started

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
Alan Rickman

Good, Working, Knew

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
Katherine Heigl

Keep, Secret, Terrible

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams

Trust, Nothing, Tell

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David Ogilvy

Wife, Dishonest, Urge

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jonathan Sacks

Change, Cannot, Another

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