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We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

Henry B. Eyring

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Henry B. Eyring
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 31
Author
Physicist
Priest
Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Bennion Eyring
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Agency
Powers
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Influence
Moral
Inalienable
Rather
Whichever
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