#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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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#love #imagination

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#almost #am #care #definitions #forced

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

— Hillary Clinton

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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

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#definition #definitions #different #other #people

Duty is what one expects from others. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#duty #life #life