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• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  Carlos Slim

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Inspirational, Oil, Midnight

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• I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

  Mike Singletary

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

  Michael Schumacher

  Hate, Car, Racing

  "Schumacher keeps his foot down". Interview With Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts.

  Warren Spector

  Believe, Artist, Nuts

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• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

  Danica Patrick

  Dream, England, States

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Conviction, Compassionate, Gay Lifestyle

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox & The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

  Lykke Li

  Believe, Jeans, Too Short

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• Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

  Megan Smith

  Fancy, Losing, Term

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• And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Art, Integrity, Commerce

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• I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

  Robert Plant

  May, Wisconsin, Wells

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• When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Integrity, War, Responsibility

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• Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  People, Groups, Tasks

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

  Dean Karnazes

  Failing, Permit

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

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• True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Obedience, Our Relationship, Refusal

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• I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Keys, Order, Messages

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• Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

  Sol Stern

  Rejection, Hatred, Mets

  Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books

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• If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Mind, Wealth

  "Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind".

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• Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

  Stephen Covey

  Without Trust, Can Do

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.314, Mango Media Inc.

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• Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

  Gore Vidal

  Mean, Order, Matter

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Revolution

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• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  People, Trying, Fields

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