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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
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.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.
You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.
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.
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.
