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Disagreement

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When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River they don’t call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn’t a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally.

Harry S. Truman

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We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till be becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Ben Jonson

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Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

George R. R. Martin

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

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What dire offense from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Alexander Pope

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He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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