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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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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.'"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."
"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
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