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• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Political

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Issues, People

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Conscious

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• I disagree with everything I used to say.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Used

  "All hail the Queen". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

  Paul Weller

  People, Style, Jam

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

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Lying, Liars

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

  Rick Warren

  Compassion, Government, Justice

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• I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

  Katy Perry

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

  Katy Perry

  Ignorance, Agree To Disagree, Want

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• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  Barbara Kruger

  Thinking, People, Battle

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• Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Doe, Done

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• The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Doe, Constitution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Issues, People, Generations

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• I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

  Norah Jones

  People, Lucky, Might

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

  Penn Jillette

  President, Qualified, Competent

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

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• People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Two, People, Opera

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

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• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Heaven, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Charles Carroll Albertson (1909). “Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved "That Christianity is Declining."”

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• Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

  George Akerlof

  Economic Models, Psychology, Cooking

  "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.

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• Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.

  Janice Raymond

  Voice, Differences, Criticism

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• Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Heart, Democracy, Essentials

  "Words Have Consequences" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Should, Critics

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• I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

  Dalai Lama

  Struggle, Views, Passing Away

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• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Real, Ideas, People

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• A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

  Don Marquis

  Country, Literature, Gang

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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• There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dislike Me, People, Groups

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