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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Empowering, Progress

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

  Brian Eno

  Enough, Terrible, Ifs

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• I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

  Paloma Faith

  Mother, Cancer, Thinking

  "Paloma Faith: 'Cosmetic surgery is superficial'" by Kristy Kelly, www.digitalspy.com. May 17, 2011.

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• People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Views, People

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• I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mean, People

  "Robin Roberts Grills Carly Fiorina on 'Too Extreme' Sarah Palin". www.newsbusters.org. October 29, 2010.

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• I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

  Pope Francis

  Collaborators

  "Pope Francis signals openness towards gay priests" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

  Morgan Freeman

  Movie, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secular Music, Age, Cheerful

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• We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

  Daphne Guinness

  Thinking, Past, Civilization

  Interview with Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2011.

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• You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

  William Hague

  Stress, People, Balance

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• I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

  William Hague

  Iraq, Decision, Invasion

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• I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Artist, Winning, People

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• Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Goes On, Way

  "Robert Harris: 'I used to love politics. Not now'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, Guarantees That

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

  Anne Hathaway

  Art, Character, Mean

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• As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.

  Hunter Hayes

  Artist, Thinking, Expectations

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• Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

  Hugh Hefner

  Religious, People, Boards

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• When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

  Faith Hill

  One Day, Ifs

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Freedom, Hate, Attachment

  United States v. Schwimmer (dissenting opinion) (1929)

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• God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Ideas, Soul

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• I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

  Thomas Huxley

  Morning, Freedom, Science

  'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'On Descartes' 'Discourse on Method" (written 1870)

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