"Too much agreement kills the chat."

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"If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it."

Charlotte Smith, English Poet

Agreement, Conquest, Posterity

"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."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Agreement, Difference

"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."

Louis Stokes, American Politician

Agreement, Authority

"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

Agreement, First, Question, Thinking

"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

Agreement, Force, Will, Worth

"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."

Tacitus, Roman Historian

Agreement,

"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."

Gerry Adams, Irish Politician

Agreement, Rights, London

"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."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

Agreement, America, Consequences, Effect

"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."

Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

Agreement, Nations, Reason

"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."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Agreement, Open, States, Tests

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