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Compromise
A lean compromise is
better than a fat lawsuit.
?George Herbert
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.
?Ambrose Bierce
From the beginning of our history
the country has been afflicted with
compromise. It is by compromise that
human rights have been abandoned.
?Charles Sumner
The compromise will always
be more expensive
than either of the suggestions
it is compromising.
?Arthur Bloch
What are facts but compromises? A fact
merely marks the point where we
have agreed to let investigation cease.
?Bliss Carman
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.
?H. Rap Brown
Once you consent to some concession, you can
never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
?Howard Hughes
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get
"something." That's the way our system works.
?Lyndon B. Johnson
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce
between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
?Reginald W. Kaufman
The compromise will always be more expensive
than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
?Arthur Bloch
Games are a compromise between
intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
?Eric Berne
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more
devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
?Charles Swindoll
