To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, p…

Margaret Thatcher
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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects. ✨ Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.
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