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• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Commitment, Loss, Sacrifice

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.224, Ravenio Books

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• We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Thinking, Humanity, Mankind

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Mean, Power

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• Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Father, Government, Long

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1977). “Sailor Historian: The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison”

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• If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

  Amos Oz

  Fate, Unhappy, Sides

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• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Doubt, Literature

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Agreement, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

  Sarah Brightman

  Wife, Persons, I Can

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• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  Samuel Butler

  Fall, Tunes, Impossible

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Healthy, Way, Debate

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

  Golda Meir

  Bullying, Be Or Not To Be

  The New York Times, December 12, 1974.

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• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Philosophical, Emotional, Oil

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

  Gunter Grass

  Art, Life Is, Uncompromising

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• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Civilization, Comeback, Insult

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• Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

  David Sylvian

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

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• You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

  Richard Widmark

  Way, Results

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• The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.

  Paul Murray

  Acceptance, Maturity, Achievement

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• If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Accomplish Nothing, Be Prepared, Iron Lady

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• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Finals, Prudent, Negotiation

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sunset, Done, Losing

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

  Colin Powell

  Sight, Views, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

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• A series is filled with compromises.

  William Shatner

  Filled, Series

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• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Fundamentals, Surrender

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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