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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

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What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

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Your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

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