Consensus Quotes
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I think we have to look at, you know, many issues. And first of all, we have to reach a consensus on the level of urgency and the magnitude of the problem before we develop a long-term solution.
Olympia Snowe
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This is one of those rare times when the national consensus demands us to act, ... But it does not require us to rush to judgement, to risk compounding the situation by stampeding toward what sounds like the best way to score points against each other.
Dennis Hastert
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
Ward Churchill
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The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
Gary Cooper
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Michael Crichton
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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson
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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
Tony Kushner
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.
Jack Straw
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We feel like there's a lot of up-and-coming guys that can play well at times, but we just haven't really put a tournament together, ... I don't really know why we haven't done that well. But we're working hard. I guess the general consensus would be that we just need, I guess, a little bit more experience under our belts and need a breakthrough win. Hopefully this can be mine.
Brian Baker
Bad Religion
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Because we want international consensus...we will be allowing a good period of up to two weeks, maybe a little more, before we ask for a decision.
Jack Straw
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It's a self-evident truth that if we're able to get a broad consensus with Russia and China, it strengthens the international community's hand with the Iranians on this dossier,
Jack Straw
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What we're talking about is allowing the Port to take a leadership position, and bring the parties to the table, ... We're going to have to come up with some kind of consensus.
William Hall
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I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.
Steve King
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The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.
Davis Schneiderman
