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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Compromise,n. 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.
If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.
Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.
Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.
A state with defective laws will have defective morals.
Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.