"Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement."

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Source : "The Iron Man of India". Book by S. Jaysbee, p. 57, 1951.

Winfield Scott

#Peace Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.”
“Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you , and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people.”

Source : "Radical Honesty". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2007.
“Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.”
“I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.”
“Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan
“Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves”

Source : "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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