#compromise

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ↗

— Paul Kagame

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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ↗

— Eric Berne

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This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want. ↗

— Conrad Bums

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

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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

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Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away. ↗

— Bob Graham

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