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• Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

  Al Gore

  Country, Two, Long

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Data

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• Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

  William Schutz

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

  William Bennett

  Character, Issues, People

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, 1993.

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• I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Thinking, Needs

  "Obama plans ambitious first week, aides say" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.

  Jim Garrison

  Communication, Civilization, World Government

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• Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Collaboration, Answers

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• I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Morning, Reality

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

  Technique, Use, Morality

  "Dick Cheney's Shadow Government" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2009.

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• To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Block, Mean, Government

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

  Al Gore

  Moon, Thinking, People

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• Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

  Lance Secretan

  Team, Excellence, Collaboration

  Lance Secretan (1990). “The Way of the Tiger: Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent Times”, Alton, Ont. : Thaler Corporation

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• Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Mistake, Issues

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• Religion is insanity by consensus.

  Bill Maher

  Insanity, Religion, Atheism

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• There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused by humans. I have very little reason to doubt that the consensus is indeed correct.

  Richard Tol

  Support, Mind, Doubt

  "Climate contrarians accidentally confirm the 97% global warming consensus" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Fashion, America, Issues

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.211, Basic Books

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• We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Philosophy, Men, Difficult Questions

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• My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Empowerment, Cinema

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• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

  David Graeber

  Hate, Thinking, Agreement

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• We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Order, People

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• It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

  Jesse Ball

  Heart, Enterprise, Humans

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage

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• Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.

  Eboo Patel

  Religious, Unique, Pluralism Is

  "Where Islam and America Meet". "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. March 11, 2007.

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• We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Rights, Kyoto Protocol

  "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.

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• We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Ethical, Crisis, Humans

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2000). “Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization”

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• What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.

  Lawrence Summers

  Powerful, Views, Hands

  "The Commanding Heights". Book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1998.

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