#concession

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession. ↗

— John Bright

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The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

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The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' ↗

— John McCain

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. ↗

— Steve Nash

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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him. ↗

— Herman Cain

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