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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

~Abba Eban

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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

~Abba Eban

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There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.

~Abdul Qadeer Khan

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Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

~Ajit Pai

Topics: Administration Beginning Best Bipartisan Broad Clinton Clinton Administration Competition Consensus Decades Federal Free Internet Kept Nearly Open Policy Promoted Regulation Rules State Two

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Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

~Alan Stern

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Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Achieved Any Bills Bipartisan Change Committees Consensus Day Deliberation Manner Means Nonetheless Not Perfect Ought Passed Perfect Proud Reach Should Something

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Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left.

~Alexis Tsipras

Topics: After Change Consensus Feels Greece Knows Left Left-Wing Limits Narrow Party Political Pulse Radical Something Stake Times Unity Wide

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There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, was a bad man. That may even be an understatement. In this fashionable consensus, he is not just a bad man: he is a war criminal.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Advisor Among Bad Bad Man Consensus Criminal Effect Even Fashionable He Henry Just Kissinger Liberal Man May National National Security Secretary Security State Understatement View War Widespread

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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Agreement Begins Blood Builds Clark Consensus He How Human Human Relationships Initial Kind Many Needs Network Out People Reading Relationships Rockefeller Says So Many People Some Thereafter Understand Via Were Who Will

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We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Best Condition Consensus Era Fake Feelings Galleries Homes Live Manage Now Seen Succeed Where Which

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