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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Conscious

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• You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Issues, People

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Political

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

  Lewis Carroll

  Poison, Wonderland, Bottles

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.16, Branden Books

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Law, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.42, Multnomah

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• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

  Alan Lightman

  Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

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• Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Looks, Problem

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• Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

  Maimonides

  Wisdom, Truth, Doe

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• We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.

  Tim Wise

  Air, Empowering, Growth

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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!"

  Hillary Clinton

  Encouragement, Tired, Patriotic

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut, April 28, 2003.

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• You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

  J. K. Rowling

  Style, Deny, Ministers

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• When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Criticism, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

  Mortimer Adler

  School, Errors, Judging

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• To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

  Mortimer Adler

  Understanding, Agree

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

  Barack Obama

  Block, America, Government

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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• Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, People, Age

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• But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

  Alice Hoffman

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heaven, Peaceful, Calm

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.22, Penguin UK

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