I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
- Topic: Character, Communication
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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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?
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
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