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• Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Teaching, Devil

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• Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Dark, Wizards, Vipers

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• We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Real, War, Moving

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• ...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Memories, Silence, Energy

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.30, Anchor

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• Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Opportunity, Use, Sides

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• Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

  Frantz Fanon

  Race, Differences, Working Together

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• The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.

  F.B. Meyer

  World, Spirit, Absolutes

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• You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to combine our respective kingdoms. Vittra and Trylle have had their disagreements over the years, and we wanted to create peace. Unfortunately, your mother is the most impossible, irrational, horrible woman on the planet.” He smiled at me. “Well, you know. You’ve met her.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mother, Years, Would Be

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• Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Witty, Struggle, People

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.302, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Home, Kissing, Add

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• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Opposites, Would Be

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• The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

  Ronald Knox

  Attitude, Numbers, Heavy

  "Let Dons Delight". Book by Ronald Knox. Note on Chapter 8, 1939.

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• The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Powerful, Reality

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• I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.

  Anna Kendrick

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  "Anna Kendrick: I'm so excited for the Oscars". Cover Media Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. February 19, 2015.

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• It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

  Muhammad al-Bukhari

  Writing, Noise, Unfortunate

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• The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

  Brian Tracy

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• I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

  Peter Baynham

  Aim

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• When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

  Aldrich Ames

  Strength, Country, Strong

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• In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution.

  Dave Willis

  Winning, Together, Remember

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 20, 2017

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• I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

  Gina McCarthy

  Rooms, Process, Democratic

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• Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations in accordance with the basic norms governing international relations and the principle of mutual understanding, mutual accommodation, dialogue and consultation.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Integrity, Differences

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Return, Consciousness, Conflict

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• We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Belief, Fervent

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in our day, debate and disagreement centred largely not on the story but on the significance of Jesus. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

  Graham Stanton

  Christian, Jesus, Miracle

  Graham Stanton (2002). “The Gospels and Jesus”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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