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Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon about advice

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.

Quote by Gerry Adams about day, good, good luck, time

House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we've done, which is one of the...

Quote by John Perkins about home, house, limits, war, power

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For...

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad luck, good luck, people

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make...

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Quote by Francis Bacon about habits, life

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak...

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Quote by Francis Bacon about good, good luck, order

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Quote by Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about nation, people, human imperfections, good, good luck

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes...

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Quote by Dean Acheson about common sense, sense

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes...

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

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics, common sense, sense

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than...

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about mistake

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about vice, doubt

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.

Quote by Gerry Adams about leadership, time

I understand fully that the IRA's most recent positive...

I understand fully that the IRA's most recent positive contribution to the peace process was in the context of a comprehensive agreement.

Quote by Gerry Adams about peace

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.

Quote by Gerry Adams about good, good luck

Under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, ...

Under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, parties have to vote for the nominees for the joint office of the First and Deputy First Ministers.

Quote by Gerry Adams about good, good luck

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

Quote by Gerry Adams about good, good luck

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Quote by Joseph Addison about curiosity, pleasure, imagination, idea, soul

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

History is the version of past events that people have...

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about events, past, history, people

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