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  Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

  James Franco

  Artistic, Making Money, Areas

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fighting, Honor

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

  Larry David

  Party, Dissatisfied

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• Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

  Mo Rocca

  Father, Hard Work, Writing

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• When a married person uses pornography or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his or her purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Church, Needs, Use

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. September 13, 2010.

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• We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Needs, Generations, Development

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• The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Fighting, Refusal, Vocation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

  William H. Whyte

  Change, Thinking, People

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

  Ernest Chapman

  Wise, Believe, Two

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• The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Failure, People, Choices

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• Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.

  Margaret Bondfield

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Honesty, Doubt

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• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  Edward Davey

  Thinking, Games, Issues

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Kindness, Compassion

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• Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is a window into each sex's unalloyed desires. Pornography for men is visual, anatomical, impulsive, floridly promiscuous and devoid of context and character. Erotica for women is far more likely to be verbal, psychological, reflective, serially monogamous and rich in context and character. Men fantasise about copulating with bodies; women fantasise about making love to people.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Character, Men

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• This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fighting, Men, Winning

  "Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880".

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• Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Responsibility, Church, Want

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• How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Tvs, Sin

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• Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

  Simon Campbell

  Knitting, Design, Suffering

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• The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Climbing, Goal

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.211, Penguin

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Audio, Lovers

  "The Year in Reading: David Sedaris" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

  Georges Danton

  Kings, Tyrants, Arms

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• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  Irwin Shaw

  Romantic, Thinking, Ideas

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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