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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come read more
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.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. read more
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.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights read more
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he read more
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.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
