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• Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Art, Teenager, Opportunity

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• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Views, Years, Hardest

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• Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.

  Mary Travers

  Views, Issues, People

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• When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, thats nonsense!', so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Mean, Creative, Nonsense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Thinking

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• The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

  Roger Waters

  Rights, Justice, Criminals

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• Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

  George Santayana

  Men, Comforting, Opinion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Leader, Silence

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• Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sex, Philosophy, Rights

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• The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, Becoming, International

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• The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Believe, Worry, Feminism

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Ethos

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• Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

  Burt Rutan

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• But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.

  John C. Bogle

  Intelligent, Investing, Serious

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• The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.

  Sheila Kamerman

  Change, Writing, Anxiety

  Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Reality, Vision, Dull

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Trying, Borders, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

  David Bodanis

  Technology, Long, Helping

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• Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be respected, but within this framework, we are a liberal and tolerant country where everyone can live as they desire and according to their tradition. That is the Danish way.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Desire, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

  Michael Hersch

  Interesting, Topics, Given

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• People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Agreement, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Hands, Greed

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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• We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Order, Data

  "The Wellspring of Reality". "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" by Buckminster Fuller, 1975.

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• People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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