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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread.

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. – G. K. Chesterton

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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. – Charles Swindoll

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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. – John Haggai

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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