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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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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
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"I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't."
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"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
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"Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself."
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"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
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"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
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"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
Decision-Making
"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
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
Fact
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
Connection
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
Discipline
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
Honor
"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
"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
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
Negative
"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that."
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