"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

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

Tim Robbins, American Actor

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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

Golda Meir, Israeli Leader

Compromise, Question

"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."

Paul Kagame, Rwandan Statesman

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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."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."

Eric Berne, American Psychologist

Compromise, Games, Intimacy

"The devil is compromise."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Compromise, Devil

"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."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Compromise, Defense, Loss, Names

"Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself."

Toby Keith, American Musician

Compromise,

"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."

Amos Oz, Israeli Writer

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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."

Claire McCaskill, American Politician

Compromise, Now, Party, Republican

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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

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"The bashful are always aggressive at heart."

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

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."

"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."

"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."

"The devil is compromise."

"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."

"Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself."

"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."

"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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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."

"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."

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

"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."

"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

"The bashful are always aggressive at heart."

"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."