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• At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

  George Orwell

  Orthodoxy, Facts, Moments

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• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Divorce, Profound

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• Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

  Gloria Steinem

  Humanity, News, Helping

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Revolution, England, States

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Acceptance, Rivers, Drawing

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• It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Ideas, Mind

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  Immanuel Kant

  Land, Numbers, Broken

  Immanuel Kant (1915). “Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

  David Hume

  Perfect, Doubt, Society

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Understanding, Reaching, Claims

  "On the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.

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• Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Perspective, Different, Common

  "Faith and Politics: Party Leaders Respond". "Faith Today" Magazine, January 11, 2006.

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• The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes the person. Adam Smith and Karl Marx both recognized the extent to which people's attitudes and behaviors take shape out of the experiences they have in their work.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Attitude, People

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• I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Gold, United States

  "Before she ran off, Condi threw a tantrum in Ottawa". www.dailykos.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole Nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Profound, Magic, Secret

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• There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Games, Investing, Chance

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

  Paul P. Enns

  Doe, Earth, Giftedness

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.155, Moody Publishers

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• Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

  George P. Bush

  Hands, Matter, Collapse

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• That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why:
  No man of another can say, 'He is I.'
  Behind all agreement lies something amiss
  All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Men, Littles

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, St. Martin's Press

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• Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Thinking, Use, Way

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• It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.

  Richard Carrier

  Atheist, Errors, Self

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• Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.

  David Hoffman

  People, Unions, Behavior

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, America, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• (Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Intellectual, Sides

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

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• We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hurt, Hate, Pride

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

  Bernard Baruch

  Lying, Race, Taught Us

  Bernard Baruch's Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946.

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• Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

  Emma Goldman

  Ordinary, Economic, Pact

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.151, Sheba Blake Publishing

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