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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.


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PAUL TONKO The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
GABE PAUL Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only...
PAUL O'NEILL Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks ag...
PAUL BEGALA I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it...
PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa...
PAUL STAMETS Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
PAUL WHITEMAN In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN