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 "A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
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George Herbert |
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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Arthur Bloch |
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"It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man."
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Elbert Hubbard |
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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."
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Bertrand Russell |
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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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."
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G K Chesterton |
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"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory."
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Benjamin Disraeli |
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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." |
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Andrew Carnegie |
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"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
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Samuel Butler |
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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Abraham Lincoln |
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