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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Military, Enough, Combat

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• You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

  Bill Gurley

  Making Money, Predictions, Accurate

  "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

  Tom Wicker

  Order, Two, Dollars

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• Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

  J. William Fulbright

  Miscarriage, Agreement, Differences

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• There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.

  David Cheriton

  Knowledge, Two, Way

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• Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

  William A. Dembski

  Government, Law, Games

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Silly, Book

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• We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
  We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

  David D. Clark

  Running, Kings, Believe

  "How Anarchy Works" by Paulina Borsook, www.wired.com. October 1, 1995.

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• We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Party, Fighting

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• I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

  Chuck Grassley

  Believe, Individual, Mandates

  "Transcript: Sens. Dodd, Grassley on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2009.

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• In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions.... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.

  Joseph Sobran

  Xmas, Powerful, Mean

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• It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

  David Graeber

  Roots, Evil, Important

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• I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Helping, Compromise, Bipartisan

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• If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

  Tim Ferriss

  Government, Support, Salt

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• One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most likely, now - as in the past - many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others.

  Colin Robinson

  Past, Order, Climate

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• How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.

  Michel Onfray

  Girl, Children, Boys

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• The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Science, Intellectual

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• There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Israel, Two, States

  "Rivlin to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on '2 States'". www.israelnationalnews.com. June 16, 2009.

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• Although the House Intelligence Committee report claims to be the definitive statement of the House of Representatives on matters of Benghazi and intelligence, interviews over the past week make clear that it's not even the consensus position of Republicans on the committee.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Past, House, Matter

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• Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As hackers we can learn these systems, manipulate these systems, and shut down these systems if we need to.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Civilization, Groups, Needs

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• Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but...

  Sarah Palin

  Stupid, Believe, America

  "Palin, Biden Trade Views On Abortion". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

  Naomi Klein

  Information Sharing, Decision, Groups

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• Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Talking, People, Environmental

  "Undeniable Global Warming". www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2004.

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• I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

  Alice Waters

  Real, School, Lunch

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

  Scott Belsky

  Achievement, Vision, Definitions

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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