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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."
"You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not."
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
"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.'"
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
"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."
"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."
"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed."
"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."
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