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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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"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.'"

"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."

"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."

"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."

"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."

"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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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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