The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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Volume ii, page 108.Edmund Burke
What were the offers being made on each side of the Camp David and in the Taba talks? [...] if you frame things in terms of what Israel was legally entitled to under international law, then Israel made precisely and exactly zero concessions. All the concessions were made by the Palestinians.
Norman Finkelstein
Sometimes what I want and what I don’t want make so many concessions to each other that they end up looking alike.
Antonio Porchia
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
Emil Cioran
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
Vaclav Havel
Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.
Howard Raiffa
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