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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. ↗

— George Washington

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Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗

— Andre Gide

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