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It is idle to await unanimity.
Robert Dale Owen
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Robert Dale Owen
Scottish
Politician
Born:
Nov 7
,
1801
Died:
Jun 24
,
1877
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,
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
Day
Every Day
Mind
Reading
Every
Think
Thinking
Enough
Else
Bad
Unanimity
Would
Would-Be
Silly
Something
No-One
Part
Read
Continually
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson
Dissent
Those
Unanimity
Find
Only
Compulsory
Soon
Opinion
Begin
Achieves
Unification
Themselves
Who
Coercive
Graveyard
Elimination
I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Leadership
Decision
Right Decision
Think
I Think
Unanimity
Demand
Demands
Making
Answers
Providing
Yes
Which
Forum
Right
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi Menuhin
Music
Harmony
Chaos
Melody
Out
Unanimity
Divergent
Continuity
Order
Rhythm
Disjointed
Creates
Compatibility
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
Ted Deutch
States
Unanimity
Threat
Total
Facing
Most
Israel
Iran
Serious
United
United States
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
J. D. Hayworth
You
People
Challenge
Party
Ensure
Unanimity
See
More
Cast
Through
Partisan
Prism
Labels
Than
Trying
Any
Confront
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
Jon Postel
Government
Internet
National
Unanimity
Seemed
Almost
Issue
Any
Which
Should
Multinational
It is idle to await unanimity.
Robert Dale Owen
Unanimity
Idle
Await
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