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is primarily responsible for causing disagreement among people or countries.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

is a characteristic only of those who have not thought, as no men think alike who think at all.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree. THOMAS PAINE Rights of Man, II 1792

is counterproductive. If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary. Winston Churchill

 leaves us inactive, whereas contradiction makes us productive.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is valuable but so is its opposite. We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us ' growth among those who don't.

is pleasing. We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks - if we agree with him.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him. Mark Twain

is self-flattery. We seldom seem to find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is tiresome. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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