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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader
Genuine
Searcher
Consensus
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
Values
Abandoning
Seems
Something
Objects
No-One
Policies
Principles
Process
Which
Beliefs
Believes
Consensus
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
People
Party
Believe
Still
Traitors
Regard
Mean
Them
Who
Consensus
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell
You
Constitution
Writing
Country
Later
Compromise
Compromises
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Got
Making
Arrive
Were
Did
Move
Just
Forward
Start
Consensus
Philadelphia
I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
Anthony Kennedy
Commitment
Values
Neutrality
Think
Other
Philosophy
Temperament
Constant
General
More
Select
Particular
Judges
Judicial
Opposed
Which
Should
Based
Consensus
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Michael Crichton
Debate
Matter
First
Settled
Way
Claim
Claiming
Has-Been
Been
Historically
Scoundrels
Refuge
Avoid
Consensus
Our political differences, no 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
Matter
National
Differences
Convictions
Our
Remarkably
Sharply
How
Narrow
Debated
Durable
Quite
Really
Comparison
Founding
Consensus
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
Nothing
More
Obstinate
Than
Fashionable
Consensus
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Joseph Brodsky
Man
Finds
Something
Allies
He
His
Reprehensible
Order
Against
Ethical
Act
Consensus
Need
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban
Everyone
Say
Collectively
No-One
Individually
Means
Agree
Believes
Consensus
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
DeForest Soaries
Political
Seriously
Congress
Enough
Took
Broad
Embarrassment
Members
Could
Take
Count
Leaders
True
Issues
Hand
Political Leaders
Reform
Place
Should
Among
Consensus
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
Jaan Tallinn
Humanity
Made
Blockchain
Possible
About
Data
Having
Reach
Piece
Without
Dictate
Authority
Any
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
Consensus
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
Good
Daily
Grace
Reading
Inquiry
Ourselves
Purer
Investigation
True
Lord
Permits
Affirm
Antiquity
After
Scripture
Holy
Conscience
Applied
Extent
Apply
Consensus
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Michael Crichton
You
Other
Something
Had
Reach
Because
Scientists
Hear
Wallet
Whenever
Being
Your
Agree
Consensus
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Made
Rest
Earth
Those
Insane
Would
Remains
Know
Conception
Opposite
Reflected
Heavens
Middle
Moves
Regard
Center
Sanctioned
Centuries
Who
Many
Assertion
Consensus
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
Education
Property
Public Education
Our
Property Taxes
Adult
Combat
Budget
Protective
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Occur
Child
Fixing
Reforming
Public
Republicans
Taxes
Cutting
Engage
Cynicism
Cooperation
Services
Funding
Consensus
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
You
Reality
Whatever
Believe
Else
Valid
Unless
Everything
Worry
Everything Else
Some
About
Never
Idea
Well
Got
Demonstration
Sparrow
Billions
Whole
Consensus
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
Tony Blair
Nature
Together
People
Believe
Sloppy
Compromise
Builder
Am
Bringing
Consensus
The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
P. J. O'Rourke
Doctor
Words
Wife
Lawyer
Most
Frightening
Help
Agree
Washington
Consensus
Two
Need
Bipartisan
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban
People
Believe
Say
People Say
Individuals
Many
Chorus
Consensus
Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.
Alan Stern
Science
About
Individual
Reaching
Experts
Really
Consensus
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer
Time
Justice
Writing
Interpretation
State
Earth
Fraternity
Ripe
Slowly
Masculine
Well
Ready
Feminine
Authoritative
Common
Order
Which
Social
Social Consensus
Social Order
Expression
Consensus
There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
April Gornik
Change
Emotions
Better
Will
Animals
Pain
Research
Live
Awareness
Our
Way
Eat
General
Feel
Scientific
Effect
Going
Interaction
Them
Planet
Growing
Consensus
Treatment
Preserve
Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.
Barton Gellman
Change
Think
Saw
See
Someone
Direction
More
Alliance
Could
Thrust
He
Overall
Global
Himself
Policy
Steward
Clinton
Moved
Much
Who
Right
Consensus
Right Direction
The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.
Brian Schatz
Change
Science
Nation
Our
Top
Hopes
Both
Lead
Supported
Scientific
Climate
Climate Change
Real
Understood
NASA
Caused
Anyone
Urgent
Agencies
Should
Who
Humans
Consensus
To address the open question of whether we are addicted to technological devices and platforms, Congress must understand the current scientific consensus, potential gaps in research, and the best way to build a body of evidence that can inform effective policymaking.
Brian Schatz
Best
Build
Congress
Research
Addicted
Address
Way
Evidence
Must
Best Way
Potential
Open
Devices
Scientific
Understand
Question
Effective
Current
Inform
Whether
Body
Gaps
Platforms
Technological
Consensus
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