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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— George Washington

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent. ↗

— Robert McChesney

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Your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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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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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? ↗

— Basil Bunting

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