Agreement Quotes - Page 6

• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Political, Boring

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Suicide, Husband

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Would Be

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  Edmund Burke

  Political, Politics, Littles

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Doors, Arguing

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.4

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• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Simple, Differences, Discipline

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Civilization, Culture

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

  Frederick The Great

  People, Prussia, Politics

  Attributed

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• The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Book, Being In Love

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Commitment, Wmd

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• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

  Paul Simon

  Should Have, Differences, Way

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• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Paper, Sides, Kind

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• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  Bill Budge

  Stupid, May, Want

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Civil War, Liberty

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Teamwork, Time, Jobs

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• There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

  Alvin Plantinga

  Philosophy, Science, Religion

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• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

  Miroslav Volf

  Law, Justice, Goal

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Delight, Cute Friendship

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  James Bryant Conant

  Individual Differences, Democracy, Common

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• A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

  Mark Twain

  Men, Numbers, Secret

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• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mind, Single Relationship, Masters

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1312, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Listening To Others, People

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• In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

  John Hume

  Philosophy, Party, Should Have

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Important, United States

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

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