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Compromise
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“I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.”
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“ To me consensus seems to be: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects ... ”
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“Life is made up of compromises.”
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“... compromise is the work of mature people.”
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“Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.”
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“But compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.”
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“Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.”
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“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.”
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“Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.”
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“Give in on small issues. In the long haul, you get more that way.”
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“Can compromise be an art? — yes, but a minor art.”
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“In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.”
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“Compromise is something people write about. It does not work well in real life.”
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“Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.”