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• An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

  Leon Trotsky

  Force

  What Next? (1932) ch. 14

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• Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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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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• Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Love, Peace, Doctrine

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.54, Wesleyan University Press

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• McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Referee

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• This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Attitude, Europe, Netherlands

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• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Prejudice, Prevailing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Cheating, Lying, Character

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• As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Memories, Important

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• The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  United States, Way, Proposal

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.172, Best Books on

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• An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

  Don Herold

  Marriage, Men

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Reading, Minorities, Opinion

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• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Sight, Common Threads, Organization

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• The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

  Clay Shirky

  People, Tasks, Needs

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• Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.

  Don Williams

  Mean, Battle, Junk

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• I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Believe, Want, Might

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• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

  Mark Lawrence

  Block, Men, Giving

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• Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Ignorance, Issues, Political

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• Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

  Barbara Johnson

  Educational, Teaching, Order

  Barbara Johnson (1988). “A World of Difference”, p.76, JHU Press

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• If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

  Werner Vogels

  Running, Algorithms, Force

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• Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

  Guy Finley

  Letting Go, Heart

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 08, 2014

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• It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".

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• There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

  John Stuart Mill

  University

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.4

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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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