Consensus Quotes - Page 9

• Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

  D. T. Max

  Agreement, Community, Saws

  D. T. Max (2012). “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace”, p.182, Penguin

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• The market is now factoring in that first-quarter earnings will likely be below consensus. And the reality is that economic growth is probably going to be between 3.5 percent and 4 percent, which is good but maybe not as strong as what some people were hoping for.

  Subodh Kumar

  Strong, Reality, People

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• I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Leadership, Mold, Genuine

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• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations”

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Long, Creative, Depth

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• Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Men, Thinking

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• Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

  Gloria Naylor

  True Power, Giving

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• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  David Romtvedt

  Grace, Tolerance, Judgment

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• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fighting, Political Will, America

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.

  William A. Dembski

  Strong, Views, Order

  William A. Dembski (2009). “The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

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• To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Men, Goal

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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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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• 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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• Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Thinking, Gone

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• Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus!

  Harry Hay

  Space, Circles, Vision

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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true.

  John Christy

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

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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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• 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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• Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Country, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Racism, Adoption

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• I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.

  Paul Wellstone

  Strong, Believe, Resolution

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• We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

  Andre Glucksmann

  Broken, Today, Protection

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• Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

  Clay Buchholz

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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