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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Years, Catholic, Church

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• Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

  DeVon Franklin

  Sacrifice, Careers, Devon

  FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from Mar 15, 2013

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• In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Giving, Towns, Cash

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• But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.

  Guy Spier

  Thinking, People, Important

  Guy Spier (2014). “The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment”, p.20, Palgrave Macmillan

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• If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

  Rajneesh

  Change, Responsibility, Ifs

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Women, Empowering, Leader

  "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book by Michael Collopy, 2000.

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• A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and finish.

  Kevin Rose

  Team, Moving, Vision

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• If I've learned anything, it's there's just no drama, which is awesome. I've also just learned to read when it's a good time to talk about something serious and when it's not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I'm like, 'Okay, another time is better.' You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

  Hillary Scott

  Drama, Eye, Two

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• You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

  Hillary Scott

  Two, Guy, Band

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• The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Spirit, Humans, Human Spirit

  Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.167, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Climbing, Purpose

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• The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Adventure, Emotional

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• We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

  Kim Il-sung

  Fighting, Practice, Facts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god: Freedom, the Holiest of Holies. Yes it bloody well is. It is absolutely sacred and inviolable, beyond any negotiation or compromise, now and forever. Amen.

  Pat Condell

  Forever, Freedom Of Speech, Identity

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Free Speech Is Sacred", www.youtube.com. March 17, 2009.

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• If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

  Gao Xingjian

  Want, Concessions, Ifs

  "Living without 'isms'" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

  Chris Christie

  Gay, Principles, Doe

  "Christie: No deal on gay marriage" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  Madisen Beaty

  School, Thinking, Decision

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• History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

  Francis James Grimke

  Order, People, Example

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• Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Christian, Thinking, Church

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• They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Sin

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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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, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

  James Surowiecki

  Diversity, Decision, Independence

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.19, Anchor

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• Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

  Dean Karnazes

  Morning, Mirrors, People

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale

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