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

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill

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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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