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The questions reveal widespread doubts about the country's current course. But there is no consensus on which direction to take.


Daniel Yankelovich

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C. UDAY BHASKAR There was no consensus about what we'd link [the pensions] to.
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There isn't a consensus of exactly what is going on with this deep tremor. There's a lot of unanswer...
BILL STEELE This feeling is extremely widespread in Western Europe, ... and is one reason why there are at heart...
ANATOL LIEVEN There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
WARD CHURCHILL The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics...
MICHAEL CRICHTON She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certai...
SHANNON L. ALDER There has to be a consensus on this. In OPEC, everything is decided on the basis of consensus,
BIJAN ZANGANEH There will be no increase in production, definitely not. There is a consensus on that.
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JEFFREY FRY The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get the...
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LEONARD SUSSKIND Of course we want to proceed on the basis of consensus. That's up to others.
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JOE SIMS There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one...
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GAZMEND PACARADA You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.
AMIT KALANTRI There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate ...
CARL SAGAN It turned out that these cases were not true. There are no doubts about the electoral process.
OSAMA ATTAWIYA It's a long battle, but Daniel is gone and someone has to take responsibility.
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MARIE LENERU To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very diffe...
MARIE LENERU I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w...
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LAURENCE STERNE Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only re...
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KHALIL GIBRAN No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...
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CHAKIB KHELIL The election is finally over. Italians no longer have any doubts about our triumph.
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MAO SHOULONG FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had p...
A.E. SAMAAN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Our current situation now is not a good situation. We have these ongoing and widespread outbreaks.
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LEONARD SUSSKIND To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies....
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Doubts are good. Confusion is excellent. Questions are awesome.
All these are attempts to expan...
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MARC VEASEY There are many questions, but no answers.
DARRELL FRASER Life is too short to have debts and doubts,
Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES That is a very good basis on which we aim for consensus,
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J C A ROWE What we were trying to do here is to find a consensus that this was a good direction to go in and th...
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Domestic investors are still waiting to see which direction the political wind will take.
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ERIC ZORN The violence is ever present and widespread, people so desperate. The power, the political interests...
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MAXIME OURLY Americans are broadly uneasy about the quality of our relations with the rest of the world, especial...
DANIEL YANKELOVICH The oil-dependency issue now meets all the criteria for having reached the tipping point: an overwhe...
DANIEL YANKELOVICH Soon the grumbling may become too loud for the Bush administration to ignore,
DANIEL YANKELOVICH The concern is growing. There is no question.
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DANIEL DENNETT Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...
DANIEL DENNETT In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...
DANIEL DENNETT Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preservin...
DANIEL DENNETT The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETT I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ...
DANIEL DENNETT As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and ...
DANIEL DENNETT The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...
DANIEL DENNETT The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
DANIEL DENNETT In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may ...
DANIEL DENNETT An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
DANIEL DEFOE The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
DANIEL DEFOE In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
DANIEL DEFOE It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...
DANIEL DEFOE As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and le...
DANIEL CUDMORE I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
DANIEL CUDMORE Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.
DANIEL CUDMORE If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers ju...
DANIEL CUDMORE I would love to work on a Bond film.
DANIEL CUDMORE If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
DANIEL CUDMORE Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfi...
DANIEL CUDMORE If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
DANIEL CUDMORE I started drama in high school.
DANIEL CUDMORE I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
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