Given afair wind,

Given afair wind,
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
  

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.
Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.
Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.
Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.