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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.
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.
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.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to read more
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.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the read more
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.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
