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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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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
"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 can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
"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."
"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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