"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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"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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"There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial."

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"We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting."

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"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."

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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

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"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."

Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher

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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."

Christopher Isherwood, American Author

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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist

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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."

Bill Owens, American Politician

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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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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."

Claire McCaskill, American Politician

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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.'"

Barack Obama, American President

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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

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"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."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

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