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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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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

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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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