Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Interpretation
Compromise is a negotiation where each party feels they have gained something, even if it's not entirely fair.
This quote from Ambrose Bierce satirically defines compromise as a situation where conflicting interests are adjusted so that each participant believes they have obtained a fair outcome, despite the inherent inequities. It highlights the often ironic nature of compromise, suggesting that in trying to satisfy conflicting desires, parties may leave feeling both gratified and unjustly shortchanged.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing project roles, one might say, 'As Ambrose Bierce noted, compromise often means everyone leaves thinking they got something they shouldn't have.'
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
Peace without justice is tyranny
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.
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