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"Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends."
"The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform."
"Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise."
"compromise is the work of mature people."
"Without trust, the best we can do is compromise."
"When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish."
"I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood."
"If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind."
"It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see."
"We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other."
"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
"Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values)."
"Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail."
"I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible."
"Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper"
"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."
"It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure."
"In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance."
"Compromise is just a fancy term for losing."
