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Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
-Proverb
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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
-Proverb
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
-Marcus Aurelius
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
-Samuel Butler
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
-Neville Chamberlain
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
-John Jay Chapman
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Too much agreement kills the chat.
-Eldridge Cleaver
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
-Grover Cleveland
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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
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
-Abba Eban
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Agreeing to disagree is a way of giving up—an admission that neither one of us has the skills, courage, or tenacity to work it out!
-Suzanne Mayo Frindt
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Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
-Charles De Gaulle
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What usually comes first is the contract.
-Ira Gershwin
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
-Johann von Goethe
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
-Samuel Goldwyn
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Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
-John Heywood
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-Cullen Hightower
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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
-Edward W. Howe
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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
-Juvenal
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
-Rudyard Kipling
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
-John Major
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Books about Agreement
