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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the read more
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
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.
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.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure read more
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.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the read more
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
