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| The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. | Eleanor Holmes Norton | |
| We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. | Frank A. Clark | |
| Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. | Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964 |
| The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. | Atwell | |
| Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you. | Claude M. Bristol | 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing'' |
| If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. | Darryl F. Zanuck | |
| Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. | Dean Acheson | 1893-1971, American Statesman, Lawyer |
| Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value? | Frederick | Carl) Frieseke (1874-1939, American-Born French Painter |
| 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 | 1908-, American Economist |
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| Extremists think ''communication'' means agreeing with them. | Leo Rosten | 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist |
| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. | Vince Lombardi | 1913-1970, American Football Coach |
| Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Man, an animal that makes bargains. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. | Bliss Carman | 1861-1929, Canadian Poet |
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| Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. | Cullen Hightower | |
| Even savage animals can agree among themselves. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. | Diane Ackerman | 1948-, American Poet, Writer, Naturalist |
| I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. | Dudley Field Malone | |
| You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| Too much AGREEMENT kills the chat. | Eldridge Cleaver | 1935-, American Black Leader, Writer |
| There is nothing more likely to start disAGREEMENT among people or countries than an AGREEMENT. | Elwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985, American Author, Editor | |
| When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree. | F. B. Meyer | |
| Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. | F. D. Van Amburgh | |
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| Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| All colours will agree in the dark. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. | Frank Moore Colby | 1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist |
| Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet--a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. | Frederick W. Robertson | |
| Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much AGREEMENT, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
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| When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of coloured hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. | Germaine Greer | 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer |
| On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an AGREEMENT for the mutual forgiveness of sin. | Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist |
| As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
| Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. | Immanuel Kant | 1724-1804, German Philosopher |
| What usually comes first is the contract. | Ira Gershwin | American Songwriter |
| Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. | Isaac Watts | 1674-1748, British hymn-writer |
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