#definitions

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

Avant-garde is French for bullshit ↗

— John Lennon

#definitions #art

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#love #imagination

Tears are words the heart can't express ↗

— Gerard Way

#life #love #life

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definitions #humor #poison #sarcasm #women