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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

— Yair Lapid

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

— Steven Seagal

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

— Paul Singer

I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

— Bill Maris

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

— Maimonides

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

— Tryon Edwards

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

— Edi Rama

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

— Tony La Russa

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

— Solomon Burke

✗Opposing Perspectives

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

— Christopher Dawson

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

— Chris Patten