Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Chinua Achebe
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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
G. K. Chesterton
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell
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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Reginald W. Kaufman
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.
Gary Hirshberg
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Tryon Edwards
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Charles Sumner
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
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Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown
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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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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Charles Sumner
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