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• Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

  Gene Sharp

  Promise, May, Opponents

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.12, Albert Einstein Institution

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• We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Mean, Eye, Two

  "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality". Book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, 1971.

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• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Pride, Thinking, Ideas

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• My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

  Frances O'Grady

  Patience, Running, Long

  "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Enemy, Deals

  "Richard Holbrooke, noted diplomat, is dead at 69" by Joe Sterling, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).

  Michael E. Mann

  Opposites, Doe, Viewpoints

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

  John Gage

  Technology, Internet, Governance

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• "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road."

  Price Pritchett

  Country, Jobs, War

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• China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

  David E. Bonior

  Enforcement, Lasts, China

  "Fight Continues Over China Trade Vote with Outcome too Close to Call". "CNN News" with Major Garrett, www.cnn.com. May 21, 2000.

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• You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.843, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighting, Law, Practice

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• I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

  Learned Hand

  Way, Dean, Counting

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

  Dave Barry

  Native American, Men, Mutual Benefit

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Betrayal, Drawing

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• In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Couple, Husband, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.1807, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.

  Brandon Mull

  Men, Order, World

  Brandon Mull (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  C. S. Forester

  Loyalty, Captains, Suggestions

  "A Ship of the Line". Book by C. S. Forester, 1938.

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• Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Iron, House

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• Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Arrows, Made

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.410, Macmillan

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• ... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teaching, Mind, Looks

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Law, Clothes

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• King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined. Halt and Crowley's faces were inscrutable in the shadows of their cowls. The two younger men were both a little wide-eyed- obviously uncomfortable at the emotions that had been bared in the room. There was still a hint of admiration in Will's eyes, however, as he continued to stare at the Baron. Rodney was nodding in agreement with Arald's statements, while Gilan made a show of studying his nails.

  John Flanagan

  Kings, Eye, Men

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• When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

  John Bruton

  Country, Agree, Other Countries

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• I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

  Albert Einstein

  Army, Fighting, Ideas

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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