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be all things to all men

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be all things to all men
to try to please everyone, even when it is impossible to do this You can't possibly keep everyone happy and you've just got to realize that you can't be all things to all men.
See also: men, thing


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Some shed their denominational affiliations, allowing them more easily to be all things to all men.
Reflections on the challenges to the church-related college by Rudolph, Frederick / Liberal Education
``I could see how I wanted to be all things to all men,'' he says.
TWO AMERICAN LITERARY ICONS AT IT AGAIN : MAILER'S `GOSPEL' JUST ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Neither does Japanese architecture pretend to be all things to all men, nor succumb under the weight of its own intricate cosmology.
Visible and invisible complexities by Abel, Chris / The Architectural Review
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