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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
Enemy
"Don't force it, get a bigger hammer."
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
Compromise
"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important."
Work
"If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction."
Will
"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."
Failure
"A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking."
Thinking
"The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent."
Time
"Every clarification breeds new questions."
Question
"Every solution breeds new problems."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"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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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
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