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«We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.»
Author: John J. Sweeney
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agents, even as, parade, subvert, subverted, subverting, subverts, workplace, workplaces
«What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.»
«We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people»
«You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.»
«We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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agents, free agent, Free agents, knave, Queen of, the Queen, victoriously
«You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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agents, commission, ethical, personification, the commission
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