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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

Janis Joplin, American Musician

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

Moliere, French Playwright

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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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"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."

John Hickenlooper, American Politician

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"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

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

Toby Keith, American Musician

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"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

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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."

Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher

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"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."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."

Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher

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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Politics, Thought, Preparation, Profession

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."

Love, Man, May, Posterity

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

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"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

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"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

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