"In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship."
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"I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation."
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"Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything."
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"Compromise is the welcome mat to deception."
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"Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises."
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"There can be no compromise on moral principles."
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"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise."
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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory."
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"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
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"But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs."
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"Lasting change is a series of compromises."
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"How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language."
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"Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art."
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"To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise."
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"Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges."
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"All government is founded on compromise and banter."
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