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• I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them.

  Mariela Castro

  Justice, Parent, Independence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I found collaboration to be a terrible thing in Hollywood because there are so many people involved you have to make a thousand little compromises to every project and every single scene is a committee decision. It's maddening. But with comics you've got an artist and you've got a writer.

  Benjamin Percy

  Artist, People, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Redemption, Urban, Christianity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

  Grimes

  Order, Want, Moral

  "Grimes Wrote a Tumblr Manifesto Against Sexism" by Amanda Dobbins, www.vulture.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  Matt Taibbi

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

  New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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• As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

  Gabrielle Union

  Husband, Philosophy, Way

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• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  Florence Welch

  Long, People, Want

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• In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

  Joss Whedon

  Tvs, Doe, Actors

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• In dreams begins responsibility.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."

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• Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Courage, War

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• The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

  John Piper

  Wrath, Meditation, Way

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• And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

  Tom Perrotta

  Careers, People, Everyday

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.128, St. Martin's Press

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• I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Worship You, Safety

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  Stephen Fry

  Two, Fool, Stalling

  Stephen Fry (2012). “Columbus war ein Engländer: Geschichte einer Jugend”, p.229, Aufbau Digital

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• And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

  Gregory Maguire

  Girl, Needs, Sides

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• Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sick, Feelings, Trying

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

  Ayn Rand

  Wish, Gone, Wish You

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.60, Penguin

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• Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Reality, Lightning

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

  Richard Bach

  Dream

  Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.93, Jaico Publishing House

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• Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

  Matthew Henry

  Peace, Jewels, Giving

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.19

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• No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

  Alan Moore

  Comic Art, Rorschach, Faces

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

  Philippa Gregory

  Ambition, Virtue, Highest

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• I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Self, People

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.289, Anchor

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