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• You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

  Peter R. Scholtes

  Team, Collaboration, Conflict

  "The team handbook for educators: how to use teams to improve quality".

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• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Assessment, Political, Climate

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• The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.

  Adyashanti

  Hate, Love You, Important

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.56, Sounds True

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• Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

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• I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, President, Needs

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• I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Thinking, Two Sides, Historical

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• But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, People, Say Anything

  "Barney Frank Sticks Up for Tom DeLay". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2005.

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• Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Education, Fate, People

  "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.

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• Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

  David Brin

  Civilization, Giving, Innovation

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Kids, Talking

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• If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

  Elizabeth Bear

  Kings, Ifs

  Elizabeth Bear (2012). “Range of Ghosts”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

  Howard Dean

  President, Said, I Can

  "Dean: Bush made "huge blunder". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell].

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Thinking, Understanding

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

  Party, Government, Law

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• Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Humorous, Profound, Preparation

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• I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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• Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

  Nick Rahall

  Intelligent, People, Goal

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• Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

  Lev Grossman

  Believe, Book, Order

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• If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

  Kofi Annan

  Talking, Opponents, Calling

  Kofi Annan (2012). “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace”, p.1978, Penguin

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

  Marvin Olasky

  Wimps, Causes, Speak

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• I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

  Adrian Peterson

  Children, People, Alternatives

  "NFL Star Adrian Peterson Cleared to Play by Vikings, Speaks Publicly on Child Abuse Charge" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 15, 2014.

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• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Ideas

  I-D Magazine Interview, 1996.

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