Agreement Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
  [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

  George Herbert

  Judgement, Judgment, Ill

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• I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Commitment, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Numbers, Long

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Humanity, Bed

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• Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Crowds, Outcomes, Action

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.85, Penn State Press

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• Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Matter, Morality, Concern

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

  Dora Russell

  Average, Ancient, Modern

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• Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Party, Cells, Hatred

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Ideas, Movement, Accepting

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• Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

  Chris Huhne

  Oil, Growth, Hook

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• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  Dan Kildee

  Support, United States, Protect

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  Dan Kildee

  Economic Integration, World, Steps

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  Dan Kildee

  United States, Pillars, Economy

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

  Monique Wittig

  Language, Social, Humans

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

  African Spir

  Order, Engagement, Upside Down

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 45), 1937.

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• I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

  Cheryl Hines

  Assistants, Confidentiality

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• The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

  Bob Schwartz

  Doe, Dieting, Weight

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets don't work”, Breakthru Publishing

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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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• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Practice

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

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