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• We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

  Barack Obama

  Military, People, Safe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

  "A Fairness Doctrine for Internet?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Thinking, Political

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• It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Essence, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind.

  Gretl Braun

  Mind, Saws, Frame Of Mind

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• We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.

  Barack Obama

  Sea, Cooperation, Economy

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.

  Mark Shields

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.

  Benton MacKaye

  Mean, Organization, People

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• Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Dance, Men, Two

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• We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Agreement, Needs, Ifs

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• Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

  Iain Pears

  Thinking, People, Ears

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.72, Penguin

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• Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fighting, Philosopher, Arguing

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.

  Jean Ferris

  Normal, Unexpected, Ever After

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• In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Past, Rules To Live By

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• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hope, Science, Errors

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.

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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Funny, Family, Queens

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• The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sacrifice, Risk, Titles

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.1, Basic Books

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• No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

  Dean Koontz

  Relationship, Dog, Betrayal

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• Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

  Jon Snow

  Castles, Different, Thrones

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• When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Victory, Today

  "Open Heart: Practising Compassion in Everyday Life". Book by Dalai Lama, p. 13, September 5, 2002.

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• Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

  Maimonides

  Wisdom, Truth, Doe

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