"To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians."
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"Take your time and make sure the person who you do intend to have sex with is someone you deeply love and care about, and make sure you get to know them as much as you can, and make sure by having sex you don't compromise your character."
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"If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass."
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"If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all."
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"He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems."
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"Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise"
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"A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation."
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"It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises."
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"If you must compromise, compromise up."
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"All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises."
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"If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up."
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"I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that."
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"The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them."
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"There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs."
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"Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television."
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"If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise."
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"Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't."
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"Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman."
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"Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment."
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"God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession."
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