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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Author: George Herbert
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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.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Author: Charles Sumner
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Author: Arthur Bloch
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Author: Bliss Carman
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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.
Author: 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.
Author: Howard Hughes
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I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Author: Reginald W. Kaufman
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Author: Arthur Bloch
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
Author: Eric Berne
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Author: Charles Swindoll
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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Author: Reginald Wright Kaufman
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It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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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.
Author: Charles Sumner
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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.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Better bend than break.
Author: Scottish Proverb
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From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Author: Edmund Burke
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
Author: Winston Churchill
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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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