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“When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.”

Ifs Sides Policy Fine Hearing Motive Racist Criticize Disagreement Being Positive Sexist

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.”

Mean Ready Diversity Tolerate Disagreement Clamor

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.”

Way Together Greater Seeing Pursue Generous Agreement Disagreement Orthodoxy Better Ways

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.”

Political Felt United Democracy Issues Colour Pakistan Fragrance Disagreement Bouquets

Author:Asif Ali Zardari

“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies”

People Belief Enjoy Loss Careers Policy Ambition Commitment Compromise Regimes Behaviour Revealing Decency Disagreement Sanctions Livelihood Retaining

Author:Mary Fulbrook

“Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.”

Men Should Humans Kind Would Be Courses Influence Human Nature Opposites Persuasion Adopted Disagreement Decree Reversal Unassuming

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?”

Ifs Should May States Universe House Strong Results Cities Clear Fields Endure Statements Consideration Division Disagreement Goodwill Enmity Animosity

Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”

Knows Men Mean Has Beens Two Law Courses Party Five Alive Minutes Complicated Lawyer Suits Five Minutes Premises Disagreement Drones Scarecrow

Author:Charles Dickens

“To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.”

Wells Two Differences Party Heard Circumstances Mutual Temper Disputes Disagreement Accommodate Forbearance

Book:The writings of George Washington

Source: The writings of George Washington

“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.”

World Mind Two Enough Party Greater Surprise Occasions Shock Quarrels Disagreement Two Minds

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.”

Ifs President African American Journalist Candidates Disagreement Cardiac Cardiac Arrest

Author:John Conyers

“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.”

Thinking Should Trying Important America Law Energy Goal Answers Millions Judgment Finals Individuality Conviction Accomplish Resolve Disagreement Resourcefulness Cubicles

Author:Philip K. Howard

“There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.”

Said White Class Middle Democrat I Realized Middle Class Mutual Working Class Misunderstanding Disagreement Upper Middle Class

Author:Timothy Noah

“The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.”

“Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.”

“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”

“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”

Inspirational Party Conflict Agree Assuming Classic Resolution Disagree Anxious Negotiation Diplomacy Disputes Disagreement Diplomatic Diplomats Negotiating Win Win Agree To Disagree

Author:Dean Acheson

“The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.”

Growth Depends Disagreement

Book:The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

Source: The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

“Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.”

Wells Grows Friendship Stronger Currents Weather Disagreement

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.”

Thinking Should Reality Spirit Humanity Modern Bases Solve Dialogue Oneness Recognition Disagreement

Author:Dalai Lama

“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.”

Ifs Thinking Long Seems Political Culture Fighting Fashion Fields Becoming Solutions Happenings Trade Linked Disagreement Becoming More Fighting Each Other

Author:Tom Ford

“What central banks can control is a base and one way they can control the base is via manipulating a particular interest rate, such as a Federal Funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks lend to one another. But they use that control to control what happens to the quantity of money. There is no disagreement.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.”

Justice Growing Rights Economic Building Gay Models Strategy Significant Framework Disagreement Formation Trans Gay Rights Economic Justice

Author:Dean Spade

“A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.”

World May I Can Play Joy Please Connections Endure All Time Attractive Guarantees Now And Then Interfere Cages Disagreement Confinement

Book:Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

Source: Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

“When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.”

Persons Voice Common Race Talking Share Judgment Argument Arguing Disagreement Common Ground

Book:Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

Source: Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness

“Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.”

People Personality Conflict Disagreement Factions

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.”

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Author:Tony Scott

“A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.”

People Way Mean President Decision Clear Harmony Election Campaigns Divides Disagreement

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.”

Mind May Two Cutting Disagreement Two Minds

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side”

Use Opportunity Sides Disagreement

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.”

“If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.”

Ifs Matter Spirit Purpose Values Spirituality Opinion Principles Circumstances Endure Despite Disputes Disagreement Altered

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.”

Produce Debate Dissent Disagreement Dissension

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.”

Disagreement

Author:Joe Haldeman

“What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.”

“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.”

Ifs World Way Eye Rooms Seeing Involved Essence Spouse Consumed Disagreement Through The Eyes

Book:The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

Source: The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

“There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.”

Stills Country Challenges Too Much Sacred Sake Debate Aspiration Shallow Persistent Disagreement Interdependence Callous Divisiveness

Author:Cory Booker

“I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.”

Teaching Currents Honestly Not Sure Homosexual Theologian Inclination Flawed Premises Disagreement Congregation

Author:James Alison

“Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.”

Belief Argument Disagreement Cradle

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Kind Doe Made Decision Views Decision Making Executives Disagreement Clash

Author:Peter Drucker

“As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship.”

Mean Two Book Guy Audience Nice Worship Idols Terrific Disagreement Nice Guy Idol Worship

Author:Ishmael Reed

“It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.”

Ifs Long Reality Age Reading Planets Theory Ought Argument Function Died Fundamentals Species Believer Materialism Flaws Afterlife Secular Survived Disagreement Ecosystems Ardent Wagers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.”

Way Want Should Humans Different Sometimes Individual Different Ways Disability Autism Disagreement

Author:John Donvan

“I believe that Bruce Springsteen is terrific, but I don't think he's God. That's the only real disagreement between me and my wife. Music is really fun, and it is something that my wife and I like to share.”

Thinking Believe Real Fun I Believe Wife Share Music Is My Wife Terrific Disagreement Springsteen

Author:Russ Feingold

“Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.”

Writing Believe Mean Ends Law Fighting White Come Up Bitter Mary Again And Again One Word Disagreement Correspondence Eleanor Naacp Filibuster Walter White

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.”

Ends Care Universal Health Care Disagreement Coverage

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.”

“There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.”

People World Feels Should Believe Humans Order Principles Economic Civilization Drama Essentials Humanitarian Our World Disagreement Dichotomy Human Civilization

Author:Marianne Williamson

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