Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
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Agree Upon
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises"
Portia de Rossi
Actress
"The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them."
Laurene Powell Jobs
Businesswoman
"How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity."
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"What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong."
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"The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer."
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"My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being."
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