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Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

Lord Edward Cecil

Men, Two, Political

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It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.

Amos Oz

Government, Israel, States

Source: www.spiegel.de

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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Ira Gershwin

Happiness, Music, Very Happy

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Too much agreement kills a chat.

Eldridge Cleaver

Funny, Communication, Too Much

Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.56, Macmillan

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With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Robert Ringer

Inspirational, Prayer, Air

Robert Ringer (2013). “Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life”, p.107, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful. In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Motivational, Beautiful, Loving Yourself

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Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Thinking, Agree

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Long, Propositions

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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Grover Cleveland

Mind, Together, Sticks

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The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

James F. Byrnes

Steps, Economic, Economy

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During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

George W. Norris

War, Civilized Nations, World

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I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

Peter Block

Leadership, Party, People

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The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

Madeleine Albright

Korea, Done, Politics

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One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

Malcolm Forbes

Art, Bird, Dying

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To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

Mark Doty

Dog, Long, Cards

Mark Doty (2009). “Dog Years: A Memoir”, p.1, Harper Collins

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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Norman Lear

Thinking, People, Mind

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Danny Silk

Goal, Understanding, Firsts

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I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

Leslie Weatherhead

Life, God, Faith

"The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

Alfred Korzybski

Two Nations, Discovery, Two Lovers

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I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!" Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!

Rajneesh

Brother, Believe, Home

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distance, Sight, Average

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

John Jay Hooker

Mistake, Believe, Two

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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

Nicholas Negroponte

Pride, Thinking, Ideas

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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

Intelligent, Ideas, Violence

"Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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