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• The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

  Steven Pinker

  People, Sacred, Possibility

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.717, Penguin

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• Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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• I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

  Ted Cruz

  Cutting, Ifs And, Debt

  "David Axelrod defends Obama's handling of economy; Ted Cruz pulls Texas-sized upset". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 05, 2012.

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• We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Two, Way

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• Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Determination, Intelligent, Reality

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Men, Thinking

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• Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in the way two people negotiate their own personal amalgam of companionship and sex, compromise and disappointment, lust and tenderness, trust and lies. The challenge for the rest of us is to do the same.

  Suzanne Braun Levine

  Sex, Disappointment, Lying

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• The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

  James Hansen

  Kyoto, Style, Special

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• How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

  Jim Harrison

  Language, Wonderful

  Jim Harrison (2013). “The River Swimmer: Novellas”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ideas, Common Sense, Rebel

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• Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Religion, Devil

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• Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Said

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• We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sports, Thinking, Agents

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• Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Tables, Chaos, Should

  "DNC head: GOP could spark 'chaos'" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Slavery, Causes

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• We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Satisfaction, Looks

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• Compromise is an honorable word.

  John Dingell

  Honorable

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Confused, Childhood

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• Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

  Dennis Prager

  Long, Firsts, Descent

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

  Dennis Prager

  Integrity, People, Littles

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

  Peter Drucker

  Ideas, Leader, Moral

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• The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!

  Robert Sobukwe

  Destiny, Glasses, Progress

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• The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

  Bijan

  World, Settling, Said

  "Fashion Legend Bijan Pakzad Dies" by Annie Yuan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2011.

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