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• There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician's paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. -- Finley Peter Dunne
• Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals.
  When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional....
• When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet.
  When reason is attacked, common sense is not enough. -- Ayn Rand...
• Cyber Rights Now: Accept No Compromise.
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• If the lawmakers make a compromise, the place where it will be felt the most is the taxpayer's pocket.
  -- Deadlock's Law...
• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires -- if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical .
  .. A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not....
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
  -- Bertrand Russell...