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Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

Allen Weinstein

Goal, Purpose, Bitter

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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

Frank B. Kellogg

War, Maintenance, Guarantees

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It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Track, Important, Overcoming

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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military, Order, Organization

1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

Eisaku Sato

War, People, World

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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan

Historical, Alliances, Policy

James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1910). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

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I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

Cutting, Government, Backyards

Debates (Hansard) No. 173 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. March 23, 1995.

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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

Zebulon Pike

Fire, White, People

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The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

Dick Morris

Party, Cutting, Class

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Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

Jim Rohn

Entrepreneur, Understanding, Looks

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 13, 2017

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Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Timothy Keller

Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Anger, Hands

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Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Saul Alinsky

Change, Mean, Vacuums

Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Tom Brands

Deserve You, What You Deserve, Negotiation

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In life, you don't get what you deserve; you get what you believe, plan, and expect.

Bill Bartmann

Believe, Deserve You, What You Deserve

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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.

Dinesh D'Souza

Atheist, Inspiration, Men

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Max Lucado

Peace, War, Ubuntu

Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

God, Faith, Christian

Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 75”, p.93, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

Frank B. Kellogg

War, Mean, People

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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

Laozi

Love, Doe

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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Pythagoras

Ignorant, Silent

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

Andrew Cuomo

Needs, Currents, Albany

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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Robert Grosseteste

Doors, Noise, Be Careful

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