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History is a set of lies agreed upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon? -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I never learned from a man who agreed with me. -- Robert A. Heinlein
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. -- John Boyd Orr
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -- Norman Lindsay
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. -- James F. Byrnes
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. -- Carl Sandburg
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. -- Robert Frost
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. -- Terry Bradshaw
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. -- W. Averell Harriman
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era. -- Mahmoud Abbas
We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd! -- Daniel Craig
I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity. -- Jeremy Lin
My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.' -- Tagg Romney
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. -- E. Stanley Jones
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. -- Betty Friedan
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. -- Lou Holtz
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here. -- Donald Berwick
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. -- Barack Obama
I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family. -- Shahid Kapoor
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
History is an agreed-upon fiction. -- Diane Ackerman
Societies depend on agreed rules. -- John Maynard Smith
History is fables agreed upon. -- Voltaire
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. -- William Shakespeare
We agreed to love each other madly. -- Jack Kerouac
History is a lie commonly agreed upon. -- Oscar Wilde
History is the lie commonly agreed upon. -- Voltaire
My husband has always agreed with me philosophically. -- Cindy Sheehan
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. -- Thornton Wilder
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon. -- Ivan Panin
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. -- M.L. Stedman
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for. -- James Richardson
No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter. -- Cassandra Clare
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed. -- Edie McClurg
Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate. -- Sylvia Day
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. -- Nichelle Nichols
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed. -- Geoff Mulgan
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. -- Elia Kazan
The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed. -- Peter Akinola
Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't. -- Darren Shan
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. -- Octave Chanute
That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done. -- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy. -- Ilona Andrews
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. -- Samuel Johnson
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. -- Iain Banks
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. -- Georgia Harkness
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order. -- Henry A. Kissinger
When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality? -- Henry David Thoreau
You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . . -- Stephenie Meyer
We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this. -- Thabo Mbeki
Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with -- Illeana Douglas
This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. -- Ernest Hemingway
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. -- Albert Camus
I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point. -- Tony Todd
She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private. -- Jane Austen
We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story. -- Elie Wiesel
You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that. -- Terry Pratchett
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. -- Dudley Field Malone
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. -- Joseph Heller
That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be. -- Stella Gibbons
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy. -- Mike Rowe
Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is. -- Charles de Lint
You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you. -- Ellen Glasgow
I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed. -- Kenneth Oppel
We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious! -- Freeman Dyson
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. -- Joseph Lancaster
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves. -- Lord Robertson
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. -- Joseph Heller
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. -- Baltasar Gracian
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. -- Robert Bly
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads. -- Michel de Montaigne
Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt. -- Linda Barnes
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -- Jane Austen
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -- Jane Austen
A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. -- Salman Rushdie
Juliet is so beautiful," Mr. Buckmaster agreed, "that her being a maid is a reflection on capitalism. -- Poyntz Tyler
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking. -- Ronnie Wood
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . -- Audre Lorde
I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways. -- Drake
I haven't slept in days And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways -- Drake
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property. -- Richard J. Maybury
I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. -- Lester Bangs
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism. -- Eugen Weber
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians -- Boris Yeltsin
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe. -- Harry Dean Stanton
It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed. -- Lisi Harrison
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. -- Henry Mitchell
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. -- George Berkeley
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians. -- Boris Yeltsin
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. -- Frederick Pollock
[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again. -- Vladimir Putin
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. -- Jon Ronson
I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago -- Barack Obama
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. -- Charles Caleb Colton
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon -- Voltaire
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. -- Meridel Le Sueur
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years. -- Chelsea Handler
Life's messy," he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart. -- Lisa Brown Roberts
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. -- Khalil Gibran
At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country. -- John Kasich
Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful. -- Reese Witherspoon
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans. -- Will Rogers
It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed. -- Stephenie Meyer
We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression. -- Khaled Mashal
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. -- Beverley Nichols
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. -- Vernor Vinge
Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed. -- Christine Lagarde
Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set. -- Ewan McGregor
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. -- Garrett Hardin
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. -- Marco Rubio

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