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Amanda’s favorite books

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Amanda’s Quotes

Steven Redhead
“Going against a general consensus is not for the timid.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
tags: consensus, timid
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“The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth”
― Hadley Arkes
tags: consensus, truth
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Barbara W. Tuchman
“Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
tags: consensus, manners, statesmanship
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Harold Holzer
“Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
tags: consensus, conventional-wisdom, critical-thinking, worldview
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: agree, agreement, aphorism, aphorisms, argue, argument, arguments, conflict, conflicts, consensual, consensus, consent, debate, debates, defiance, defy, disagree, disagreement, disapproval, disapprove, discuss, discussion, discussions, dissent, humor, humour, object, objection, oppose, opposition, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, strife, unanimity
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