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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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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.

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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 read more

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.

by H. Rap Brown Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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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.

by Winston Churchill Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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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.

by Chinua Achebe Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Better bend than break.

Better bend than break.

by Scottish Proverb Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at read more

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.

by Louis Untermeyer Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

by Elbert Hubbard Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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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.

by Tryon Edwards Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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