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I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

~Allen West

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I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

~Alvin Lee

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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.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Adjustment Adversary Compromise Conflicting Deprived Due Each Except Gives Got He His Interests Justly Nothing Ought Satisfaction Thinking

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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

Topics: Accept Both Both Sides Burned Coexist Compromise Contain Doomed End How Injustice Learn Our Sense Sides Somewhere State Stop Unhappy Up

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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

~Andrei Tarkovsky

Topics: Compromise Condition Create Faith Fighting Only Own Readiness Refusal Right Serve Vocation Your

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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

~Andrew Carnegie

Topics: Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory Defeat Men Morality Never Principles Said Should Sign Sounds Strong Strong Men Weakness

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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

~Andrew Carnegie

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Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

~Andrew Cuomo

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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

~Andrew Nikiforuk

Topics: Become Canadians Compromise Energy Energy Security Future Generation Inevitable Nation Next Politicians Sands Security Tar Tolerant Too Well Who

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Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

~Andy Warhol

Topics: Action Actions Always Beings Between Born Chains Compromise Courageous Daisy Every Everywhere Forms Her His Human Human Beings Negotiation Often Ridiculous Social Solitary Sometimes Strange Way Wish Yours

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