Compromise

I recently listened to Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR and her guest Geoff Nunberg spoke about compromise. And a phrase he turned caught my ear. He quoted Avishai Margalit a Philosopher and Author who said, “Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like
to be. But compromises tell us who we are.

In these times of brinksmanship in the Washington, and often in business, I am struck by how we say a whole lot about …

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