#promise

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America. ↗

— Cory Booker

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Let God's promises shine on your problems. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. ↗

— David Bowie

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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep. ↗

— Howard Dean

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