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• Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Guitar, Play

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Order, Back Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

  June Jordan

  Girl, Children, Hippie

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• But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

  Neal Stephenson

  Suicidal, Cereal, Long

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  Funny Inspirational, Technology, Computer

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• The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Hunting, Animal, Python

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• There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

  Tony Banks, Baron Stratford

  Hunting, Way, Middle

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• Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Victory, Levels

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• Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  People, Sin, Hell

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.198

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• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  Walter Karp

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.

  David Brewster

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Men, Doubt

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• Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

  Akbar Ganji

  War, Weapons, Way

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• You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophical, Eye, Want

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• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Easier, Substitutes

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Way, Revolution

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Spiritual, Writing

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

  Chuck Knox

  Believe, Wrestling, Self

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Believe, Commitment

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• You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

  Graeme Samuel

  Leadership, Business, Integrity

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• Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational Life, Looks, Sin

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• A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Together, Band

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.343

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• It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.123, Random House

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• No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Japan, Victory

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