Agreement Quotes

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Skins, Fool, Ready

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Views

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.29, Jain Publishing Company

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• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

  Zeno of Elea

  Success, Inspirational Life, Garden

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• A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

  Confucius

  Men, Honorable Man, Doe

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• There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

  Mavis Leno

  Differences, Silence

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• Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, People, Groups

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• We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Thinking, What Matters, Hopefully

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• Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

  Ken Poirot

  Another Chance, Chance, Conflict

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• Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

  Jubal

  Religion, Morality

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• Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

  Richard Tyler

  Understanding, Listening, Products

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• To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

  Marion Woodman

  Contracts, Love Unconditionally, Bargains

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1997.

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• Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

  Ellen Key

  Reality, Appearance, Form

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Unity, Silent, Discord

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

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• Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Differences, Conversation, Discourse

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.74

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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Development, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.

  George Herbert

  Two, Ears, Sparrows

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• Make fair agreements and stick to them

  Confucius

  Sticks, Fairs

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Sides, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Past, Thinking

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• Agreements are always the product of time and place.

  Larry Craig

  Products

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• Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

  Ogden Nash

  Adults, Shows, Infant

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

  Aristotle

  Grateful, Views, Superficial Things

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2327, Delphi Classics

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• When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

  John Hume

  People, Divided, Solutions

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Imagination, Common

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