If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thomason

— Unknown Source

Abortion foes and pro-choicers can arrive at ‘common ground’ – adoption.

— Parker J. Palmer, U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939

Real life is, to most men … a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

— Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

— George Herbert, Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England, 1593-1633
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