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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." »Charles Baudelaire
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"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness." »Aleister Crowley
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." »Marshall McLuhan
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"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I think we agree, the past is over." »George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness." »Cullen Hightower
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"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it." »Tom Stoppard
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"Your very silence shows you agree." »Euripides
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"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them." »Chinese Proverb
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." »William Jr. Wrigley
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"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't." »Frank A. Clark
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"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear." »Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." »Oscar Wilde
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"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime." »Paul Williams, Das Energi
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"One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." »Lao Tzu
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"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with." »Adam Richardson
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"Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us." »Author Unknown
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"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling." »Joseph Addison
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"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us." »La Rochefoucauld
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"We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different." »George Santayana
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"Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite." »Marquis de Sade
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"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." »Bernard Avishai
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"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."" »Bernard Avishai
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon
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"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." »Ernest Hemingway
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