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• The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Return, Consciousness, Conflict

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• Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations in accordance with the basic norms governing international relations and the principle of mutual understanding, mutual accommodation, dialogue and consultation.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Integrity, Differences

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

  Gina McCarthy

  Rooms, Process, Democratic

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• In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution.

  Dave Willis

  Winning, Together, Remember

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 20, 2017

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• I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

  Peter Baynham

  Aim

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• The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

  Brian Tracy

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• The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

  Ronald Knox

  Attitude, Numbers, Heavy

  "Let Dons Delight". Book by Ronald Knox. Note on Chapter 8, 1939.

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• The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Powerful, Reality

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• I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.

  Anna Kendrick

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  "Anna Kendrick: I'm so excited for the Oscars". Cover Media Interview, sg.style.yahoo.com. February 19, 2015.

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• It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

  Muhammad al-Bukhari

  Writing, Noise, Unfortunate

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• What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

  John Keats

  Party, Two, Mind

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.273, Рипол Классик

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• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Should, Provoking

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• A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

  Joel Osteen

  Cutting, People, Effort

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• There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Unions, Has Beens

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

  Timothy Noah

  Class, White, Middle

  "Slate: The Common People vs. the Party of the People". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2008.

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• For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  School, Class, Agency

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• That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Criticism, Opinion, Passages

  Satires and Personal Writings Thoughts on Various Subjects

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, Frustration

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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• To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain.

  Ray Dalio

  Thoughtful, Past, Decision

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

  Robert Musil

  Agreement, Order, People

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• A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.

  Matthew Reilly

  Loyalty, Memories, True Friend

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• clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

  David Mitchell

  Clock

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.176, Random House Group

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• The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Opportunity, Law, Justice

  "Frank v. Magnum, 237 U.S. 309, 347". Judicial opinion, 1915.

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