Disagree Quotes - Page 17

• Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Education, Fate, People

  "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.

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• Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

  David Brin

  Civilization, Giving, Innovation

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Kids, Talking

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• If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

  Elizabeth Bear

  Kings, Ifs

  Elizabeth Bear (2012). “Range of Ghosts”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

  Howard Dean

  President, Said, I Can

  "Dean: Bush made "huge blunder". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell].

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Thinking, Understanding

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

  Party, Government, Law

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• Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Profound, Preparation

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• I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

  Scott Ritter

  Names, Said

  Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Ideas

  I-D Magazine Interview, 1996.

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• After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Mean, People, Freedom Of Speech

  "Freedom of Speech" by Zechariah Chafee, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, (p. 366), 1920.

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• All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

  Stanley Crouch

  African American, Words Of Wisdom, Stories

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• Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

  Lev Grossman

  Believe, Book, Order

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• Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Giving Up, Taken

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• I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Political, Important

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• Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

  Lee Greenwood

  Lying, Believe, Hype

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• I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Endure

  "Geraldo Defends his Jacko Interview". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. 11, 2005.

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• The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

  Martie Maguire

  Smart, Fans, Agree To Disagree

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• The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• The way the parts of me sometimes disagree,
  it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.

  Josh James

  Body, Way, Sometimes

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• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Country, Mean, Technology

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

  Dave Obey

  Life, Mean, People

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• Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind that comes through private ownership and control, which is an *extremely* rigid system of domination - people have to... people can survive, by renting themselves to it, and basically in no other way... I do disagree with them *very* sharply, and I think that they are not..understanding the *fundamental* doctrine, that you should be free from domination and control, including the control of the manager and the owner.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Donahue/Pozner", February 14, 1992.

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• When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, People, Church

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• There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Team, Adages, Complacent

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