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Lyndon B. Johnson: “I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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.
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Elbert Hubbard: “It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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G. K. Chesterton: “Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
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Mary Parker Follett: “There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
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Robert Coles: “Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
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Janis Joplin: “Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
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Zelda Fitzgerald: “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.”  more
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