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• America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

  Charles Schumer

  America, Together

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Leadership, Consensus Building, Democracy

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• I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Thoughtful, Issues

  "Rescue Effort in Chile; Next Steps for Health Care; Storm Brings Misery to Europe". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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