A Quote by Walter Brueggemann

Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

Walter Brueggemann

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Agent Available Every Imperial Possible Reduce Wants

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Walter Brueggemann
American - Theologian
Born: 1933

If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.

Kimberly Willis Holt

There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before.

Brad Garlinghouse

Each and every player wants to win every game, but that's simply not possible.

Franck Ribery

I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.

Jillian Michaels

I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Percy Barnevik

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

I come into camp every year with the hope and expectation of playing every game I'm available, every game that is available to me.

Joey Votto

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

Thorstein Veblen

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

Colum McCann

The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.

Wendell Berry

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Iain McGilchrist

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

Margaret Thatcher

Every player that I've ever been around that's worth a damn wants to be challenged and wants to be pushed, and wants to be coached hard, and wants to be held accountable.