Quotes about Agreement

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“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”
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“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”
MisattributedNot by Samuel Goldwyn. Earliest known source: Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician. · evidenceAgreement
“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”
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“On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.”
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“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
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“You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.”
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“No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.”
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“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
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“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.”
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“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
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“The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.”
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“It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.”
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“Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.”
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“My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.”
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“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.”
DisputedNo reliable early source found for Johann Kaspar Lavater. · evidenceAgreement
“There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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