“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 169
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As quoted in the American Federation of Labor Bulletin, Vol. 8, Issues 11-18 (1926), p. 69
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Variant: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Volume 3, Joseph Story, Hilliard, Grey (1833), § 1784, p. 661
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 136.
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
Context: Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso”