#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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. ↗

— Frank Dobson

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We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#definitions #different #fundamental #marriage #need

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do? ↗

— Joshua Braff

#funny #funny

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#definitions #ethics #humor #humor

Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#drinking #life

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses