Agreement Quotes

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Skins, Fool, Ready

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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Development, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Cynicism, Favourite, Altruism

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• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Political, Boring

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Sides, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Make fair agreements and stick to them

  Confucius

  Sticks, Fairs

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• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

  Paul Simon

  Should Have, Differences, Way

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Important, United States

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

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• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Would Be

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• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Thinking, Bombs

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• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  Bill Budge

  Stupid, May, Want

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Delight, Cute Friendship

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

  Martin Bashir

  Advice, Literature

  "Jackson revelations were surprise, says Bashir". www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Ideas, Natural, States

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Imagination, Common

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• Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

  Lord Edward Cecil

  Men, Two, Political

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• As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Bosnia, Limited Time, Sovereignty

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• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mind, Algorithms, Facts

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• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Slavery, Covenant, Hell

  Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.

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• It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Doors, Arguing

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.4

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• My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

  Frederick The Great

  People, Prussia, Politics

  Attributed

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• Money is not real.
  It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Conscious, Measuring

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Happy Friday, Good Friday

  "North Irish hardliners make poll gains", www.cnn.com. June 08, 2001.

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• My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Suicide, Husband

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Defense, Logical

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