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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Settling

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• 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

  Country, Rights, Political

  Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”

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• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  George Herbert

  Fats, Lawsuit

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• We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

  F. Sionil José

  Light, Sin, Accepting

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• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Majority, Politics, Might

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• In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Love, Relationship, Art

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• More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  Peter Singer

  Ethics, Expediency, Expedience

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• I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Thinking, Ethics

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• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Diplomats, Messages, Prophet

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• You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Lying, Ideas

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Real, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

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• Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

  Mike Rutherford

  Balance, Collaboration, Band

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• That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  Angela Merkel

  Groups, Interest, Contribution

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

  Ted Danson

  Hands, People, Way

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• No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Men, Impossible Things

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• We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Lessons, May, Gains

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

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• A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

  Mickey Rourke

  Couple, Awards, Long

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

  Joel Osteen

  Growing Up, Heart, Thinking

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• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Ron Paul

  Play, America, Roles

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• Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Government, Today

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• Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Minors

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• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  L. Neil Smith

  Humanity, Enemy, Important

  "Am I the NRA?". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 14, 2007.

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• Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

  Christopher Myers

  Doe, Want, Persons

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• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reciprocal, Concessions

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.133, Princeton University Press

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