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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Cynicism, Favourite, Altruism

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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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• Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Sadness, Want, Assumption

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  E. B. White

  Country, People, Disagreement

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Commitment, Wmd

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• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Simple, Differences, Discipline

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Book, Being In Love

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Civilization, Culture

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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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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• 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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• 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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• You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Groups, Individual, Achieve

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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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• We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

  Silvan Shalom

  Believe, Two, Needs

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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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• The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

  Steve Albini

  Labels, Band, Materials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Boards, Ambassadors, Nine

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• A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

  Francis Crick

  Mutation, Acid, Method

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• Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

  Jim Bishop

  Two, Loser

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• Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Korea, Intention, North Korea

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