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• Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.

  Epictetus

  Life, Spiritual, Self

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• ...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Wind, Goal

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• We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

  Joseph Mailman

  Business, Add, Generations

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• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

  Sammy Hagar

  Family, Baby, Wife

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• No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

  Greg Egan

  Growing Up, Lying, Maturity

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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• I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Tyrants, Wish, World

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.

  Glennon Melton

  Sorry, Successful, Romantic Love

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• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Heart, Past

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Quality

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• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

  John Cowper Powys

  Purpose, Action, Life Is

  John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

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• Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

  Daniel R. Scoggin

  Air, Excellence, Trying

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

  Maggie Scarf

  Self, Doe, Want

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Government, Political

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin

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• The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Real, Stories, Wanted

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• There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.65, Penguin

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• Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, Criticism, Patient

  "Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. February 1, 2006.

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• Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Ethics, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Needs, Fabric, Shortcuts

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Names, Worry

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

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• It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Meaningful, Time, Sacrifice

  Anne Graham Lotz (2014). “Heaven: My Father's House”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Sex, Moving, Mean

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.425, Penguin

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• Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Luck, Trying

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• Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Temptation, Empowerment

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.104, Thomas Nelson

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