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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. ↗

— Herodotus

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

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One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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