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• The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

  John F. Kennedy

  Cities, Mines, Negotiating

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• Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

  Claire Danes

  Balance, Constant

  "Glamour's January Cover Star Claire Danes on Why She's Happier in Her 30s" by Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. December 3, 2013.

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• You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Ends, Ifs

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• We were not born to sue, but to command.

  William Shakespeare

  Born, Command

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 196

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• A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Grievance, Poignant

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  Harold Wilson

  Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Wind

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Agents, Negotiating

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.41

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

  Harri Holkeri

  Inspirational, Finals, Tables

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• More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

  James Levine

  Mom, Couple, Dad

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• Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Wise, Real, Lying

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• Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Two, Principles

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Captivity, Want, Duress

  U.S. News and World Report, October 7, 1985.

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• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

  Abdallah II

  Children, Offering, Views

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

  Peter Costello

  Government, House, Balance

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• But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

  Robin McKinley

  Cutting, Desperate Measures, Hair

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• There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

  Kether Donohue

  Interaction, Fascinating

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Issues, Community, Hussein

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• Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Surrender, Lord

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• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

  Peace, Sheep, Fidgeting

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• Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

  Tom Metzger

  Blood, Borders, Realistic

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• We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Pistols, Way, Foreheads

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• In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crush, People, Want

  "At Home: Ai Weiwei". Interview with Jamil Anderlini, www.ft.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

  Gene Sharp

  Rights, Brutality, May

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.13, Albert Einstein Institution

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• They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Believe, Long, Office

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1977). “Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)”

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• I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Believe, Should Have

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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