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Agreements are always the product of time and place. -- Larry Craig
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life? -- Albert Einstein
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one. -- Brandon Mull
Do you think that it is possible to have a dialogue with the representatives of Lugansk and Donetsk if they all are being prosecuted and subject to criminal proceedings? That is exactly why the Minsk Agreements establish to adopt an amnesty law. However, it has not been adopted. -- Vladimir Putin
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles. -- William McKinley
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. -- Werner Erhard
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good. -- Linus Pauling
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. -- George W. S. Trow
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. -- Richard Holbrooke
I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences. -- Mitt Romney
The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world. -- Dan Kildee
We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management. -- Michael K. Simpson
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. -- Sitting Bull
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. -- George Mason
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. -- Tom Daschle
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. -- Fredric Jameson
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements. -- Dana Rohrabacher
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. -- Mahmoud Abbas
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice. -- Steven Pinker
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. -- Lech Walesa
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. -- Bernie Sanders
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. -- Anna Lindh
Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations. -- Anthony Albanese
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. -- Ban Ki-moon
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one. -- Brian Behlendorf
If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive. -- Susan Rice
Make fair agreements and stick to them -- Confucius
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements. -- Marion Woodman
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements -- Stephen Covey
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. -- E. M. Forster
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. -- Solon
Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones. -- Harvey Mackay
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. -- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. -- Jimenez Lai
...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. -- Jacques Delors
Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -- Audie Cornish
Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia. -- Vladimir Putin
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. -- Alexander Hamilton
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you. -- José Luis Ruiz
Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs. -- Charles E. Wilson
Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization. -- Michael Froman
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements. -- Adolf Hitler
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. -- David Suzuki
What I keep telling people is, getting trade agreements that are good for America is good for everybody. -- Paul Ryan
Mercy.Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled? -- T.K. Thorne
People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements. -- John Kasich
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention. -- Wilhelm Keitel
We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries. -- Kathleen Brown
Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements. -- Leon Panetta
China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. -- David E. Bonior
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements. -- Condoleezza Rice
I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed. -- Collin Peterson
Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity. -- Christine Lagarde
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. -- John L. Lewis
I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever! -- Cleve Jones
China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement. -- David E. Bonior
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. -- David Suzuki
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. -- Vladimir Putin
In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements. -- Nina Easton
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together. -- Alister E. McGrath
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself. -- David Allen
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. -- Kent Conrad
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. -- Don DeLillo
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China. -- Bernie Sanders
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident. -- Adolf Hitler
Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements. -- Sergei Lavrov
By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. -- Shigeru Yoshida
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? -- Jeffrey Rowland
The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep -- Madonna Ciccone
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs. -- Clay Shirky
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar. -- Dan Kildee
Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements. -- Maureen Dowd
To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration. -- Mark McKinnon
The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors. -- Vicente Fox
I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day. -- Bill Shorten
Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right. -- Jeff Sessions
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws. -- Jacques Delors
Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ. -- Dan Kildee
Long-term power purchase agreements are very important from an Indian perspective, not only in terms of supplying regular power across the country, but also for efficacy of the transmission network. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors. -- James Gleick
I would like to deal with a person who is able to take responsible decisions and implement the agreements reached. The name [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] does not matter. -- Vladimir Putin
Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I`m fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well. -- Paul Ryan
Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. -- Elizabeth Warren
There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ... -- Dave Barry
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words." -- Thomas More
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. -- Thomas More
Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too. -- David Brooks
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction. -- Lester B. Pearson
I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have. -- Bernie Sanders
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. -- Jules Massenet
You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements]. -- John Kasich
There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last. -- Hillary Clinton
I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way. -- John Harwood
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. -- Mark Shields
By...WWII, I.G. Farben had become...part of the most gigantic and powerful cartel of all history...interlocking agreements...over 2,000 of them...In the US, the cartel had established important agreements with -- G. Edward Griffin
Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements. -- Rush Limbaugh
From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense. -- Noreena Hertz
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. -- Shirley Chisholm
Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements. -- Gene Sharp
Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages. -- Hillary Clinton
Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish. -- Stephen Covey
Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements. -- Vladimir Putin
My advice is to listen and accept the will of the American people, the Republican voters. The Republican Party is the Republican voters, and Republican voters oppose these trade agreements more than Democrat voters do. -- Jeff Sessions
I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America. -- Bernie Sanders

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