"We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango."

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"We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango."

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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."

Karl Lehmann, German Clergyman

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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."

Francis Crick, English Scientist

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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."

Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman

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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."

Ernest Istook, American Politician

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"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact."

Roseanne Barr, American Actress

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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."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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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."

Jerry Costello, American Politician

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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."

Paul Ricoeur, French Philosopher

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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."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

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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."

Vernor Vinge, American Writer

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"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."

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"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone."

Connection

"We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that."

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"We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another."

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"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map."

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"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."

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"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."

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"It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East."

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"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."

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