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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. -- Susan Rice
I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass. -- Nick Harkaway
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. -- Rene Descartes
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument. -- Dwight L. Moody
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. -- Susan Rice
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. -- Raymond Chandler
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. -- Daniel Starch
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment. -- Charles Duhigg
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. -- Douglas Rushkoff
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. -- Matthew Simpson
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. -- Leo Burnett
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows. -- Colin Ward
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All human beings have a great agency for being part of a team. -- Jim Harbaugh
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency -- Raymond Chandler
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. -- Boyd K. Packer

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