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• Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

  John McCain

  Political Differences, Matter, Conviction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Japan, People, Desire

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• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  Pat Robertson

  Country, Thinking, Erosion

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• For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

  Deena Metzger

  Creative, Wish, Useless

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Eating, Process

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• Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Cutting, Fixing

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• Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Done, Testing

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• I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

  Catherine Ashton

  Looks, Policy, New Places

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• In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Views, Issues, Doubt

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• If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

  Masamune Shirow

  Important, Majority, Information

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• I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Politician, Conviction

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, Agreement, People

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• Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Cohabitation

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• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Mean, Political

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

  David Korten

  Country, Cooperation, Easier

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  Barbara Kruger

  Believe, Artist, Media

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• Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

  John Negroponte

  Country, Support, Doe

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• For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Reading, Grace, Inquiry

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

  Larisa Oleynik

  College, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Voice, Giving, Waiting

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  Daniel Dennett

  Problem, Ethical, Mathematics

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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• Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Blessed, Race

  Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso

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• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Long, Reform

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

  Dario Fo

  Exercise, Target, Form

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