We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
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