#concession

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. ↗

— Steve Nash

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I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. ↗

— Ron Silver

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You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. ↗

— Anthony Eden

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To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him. ↗

— Herman Cain

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