#definition

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus? ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#democracy #leadership #politics #leadership

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#affirmative #affirmative action #definition #i #know

Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he’d be able to break through in the end. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sysadmin #faith

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #humor

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world. ↗

— Sarah Thornton

#bohemian #definition #stereotype #art

guesstimate = better than a guess but not as guaranteed as an estimate... i.e. It's simply a calculated forecast based on probability, historical trends, observations, analytical research, politics, studies of human nature and good ol' common sense (the latter 2 of which usually cause a toxic sediment when mixed, LOL)... ↗

— A.A. Bell

#nature

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humour #legal-system #parenting

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definition #honesty #vision

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#democracy

Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all. ↗

— Steve Steckler

#always #congress #definition #democrats #happens