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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.'"
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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Personal Development
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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Personal Development
"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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Personal Development
"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."
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"We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
Politics
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
Government
"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
Perception
"We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway."
Unity
"I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career."
Education
"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not."
War
"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
Unity
"This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many."
Politics
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."
Fear
"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
Perception
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