#mission

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#agent #agents #america #best #book

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#career #go #heart #i #ill

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. ↗

— Brenda Waggoner

#emotions #feelings #identity #resentment #submission

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. ↗

— James Bovard

#easier #fear #frighten #government #ignorant

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. ↗

— William Lilly

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had