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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.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
