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   1 In June of 2006, I finished reading Tim Russert's book
   2 "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401359655/sr=8-1/qid=1149489458/ref=sr_1_1/102-8263180-9517763?%5Fencoding=UTF8">Big Russ & Me</a>".
   3 It's not the sort of thing I usually read, but I did find it it generally
   4 interesting and at times even thought provoking.  I wrote these thoughts down
   5 then, but never got around to posting them until now.
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   7 Russert used a particularly striking phrase when he described what he
   8 learned from his long association with Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
   9 "to respect true intelligence, ask good questions, and disagree agreeably."
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  11 I don't think I've ever heard the words "disagree agreeably" put together
  12 like that, but I instantly knew what he meant.  It seems to me that the
  13 world would be a more pleasant and productive place all around if more of us
  14 would commit to disagreeing agreeably, instead of tending towards assuming
  15 the worst, over-reacting, and flaming each other when working through
  16 contentious issues.
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