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"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Once you're signed to a label you compromise."
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"You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result."
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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
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"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."
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"I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
Compromise
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
Honor
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
People
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
Connection
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
Man
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
Independence
"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
Thought
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
Fact
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
Writing
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
Intelligence
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