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• We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Needs, Ifs, Disagreeable

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• I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sports, Running, Fashion

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Home, United States, Fifty

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• No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• If you think you have no power over what happens in the outside world, this is a belief and an agreement you have made between yourself and the field of existence. Your cells hear this command about your place in reality and do everything possible to make certain, in whatever situation you meet, that you have no power over events. Your beliefs establish the instructions for how you want to operate your biological being, and in these times of tremendous acceleration, humankind is faced with the responsibility of learning how to manage the energy of thought

  Barbara Marciniak

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

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• A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

  Howard Raiffa

  Trying, Quests, Outsiders

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Reality, Desire, Maximum

  Martin Cruz Smith (2011). “Polar Star: A Novel”, p.212, Ballantine Books

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• When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

  Chris Martin

  Light, Feelings, Wonderful

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• Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Complaining, Administration, Annihilation

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• Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cutting, Government, Two

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address to the Republican-for-Roosevelt League in New York City (November 3, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 857), 1938.

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• Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

  Publilius Syrus

  Made, Disagreement

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Long

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• It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Mind, Matter

  Attributed, in Walter Bagehot 'The English Constitution' (1867) ch. 1, p. 16 n.

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• Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

  Kallistos Ware

  Christian, Blessing, Islands

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Conviction, Agree

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• In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mean, Cutting, Years

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

  David Graeber

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

  Ben Okri

  Writing, Important, Pieces

  "Magical Ben Okri casts a spell on his readers". Interview with Nima Elbagir, edition.cnn.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Powerful, Husband, Divorce

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• In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Government, Population

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• Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.

  Marwan Barghouti

  Years, Land, People

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Elephants, Numbers

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.

  Viktor Khristenko

  Unique, Technique, Deposits

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• As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.

  Zoran ?in?ic

  Moving, Levels, Impossible

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