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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making… — Colin Powell
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. — Dennis Prager
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle… — Pythagoras
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. — Bertrand Russell
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement… — Jonathan Sacks
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with… — Carl Sagan
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. — Carlos Santana
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner… — Arthur Scargill
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that… — Albert Schweitzer
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. — George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. — George Bernard Shaw
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. — Florence Scovel Shinn
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. — Red Skelton
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. — Arnold J. Toynbee
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly… — Ivan Turgenev
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to… — Iyanla Vanzant
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil,… — Swami Vivekananda
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that… — Lech Walesa

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