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The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Author:
E. White
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Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.
Author:
James Walsh
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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Author:
Vernor Vinge
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Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Author:
Lope Vega
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.
Author:
David Trimble
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Author:
Tacitus
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
Author:
Ted Stevens
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The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Author:
Alfred Sloan
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Author:
Paul Simon
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
Author:
Clare Short
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We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.
Author:
Silvan Shalom
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Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
Author:
John Saul
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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
Author:
Mitchell Reiss
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Author:
Yitzhak Rabin
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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
Author:
Mike Pence
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
Author:
John Orr
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I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
Author:
Shaquille O'Neal
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When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
Author:
James Mooney
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Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
Author:
Thom Mayne
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We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.
Author:
Andrea Mackris
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Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.
Author:
Stephen Lynch
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
Author:
Karl Lehmann
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As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
Author:
Sanjay Kumar
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.
Author:
Nestor Kirchner
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As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.
Author:
Ron Jaworski
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
Author:
Alija Izetbegovic
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There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
Author:
Douglas Hurd
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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
Author:
John Hume
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When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
Author:
John Hume
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Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
Author:
John Hume
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Author:
Julia Howe
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It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
Author:
W. Harriman
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Author:
Rafik Hariri
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
Author:
Nelson Goodman
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
Author:
William Glasser
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Author:
Paul Getty
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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.
Author:
John Galbraith
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Author:
Frederick Frederick II
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You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.
Author:
Donald Evans
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Author:
George Eliot
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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.
Author:
Stafford Cripps
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
Author:
Francis Crick
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Author:
Walter Crane
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In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
Author:
Robin Cook
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It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
Author:
Eldridge Cleaver
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Too much agreement kills the chat.
Author:
John Chapman
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In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Author:
Lord Chandos
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The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
Author:
Paul Cellucci
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Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
Author:
Lord Cecil
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.
Author:
James Byrnes
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The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
Author:
James Byrnes
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That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
Author:
James Byrnes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
Author:
Hjalmar Branting
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There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.
Author:
Hjalmar Branting
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
Author:
Barbara Boxer
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Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
Author:
Stella Blum
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Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
Author:
Jim Bishop
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It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
Author:
Martin Bashir
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I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
Author:
Scott Bakula
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
Author:
J. Austin
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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Author:
Steve Albini
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
Author:
Gerry Adams
