"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."

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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."

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"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

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"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."

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"Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here."

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"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

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"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

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"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."

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"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."

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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."

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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

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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.'"

Barack Obama, American President

Compromise, Music, Legislation, Sense

"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

Compromise, Independence

"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."

Eric Berne, American Psychologist

Compromise, Games, Intimacy

"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, American Journalist

Compromise, Nothing, Satisfaction, Thinking

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Compromise, Surrender

"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Compromise, Expression, Limits, Perfection

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

George Herbert, British Poet

Compromise,

"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."

John Hickenlooper, American Politician

Compromise, Opinion, Right

"The devil is compromise."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Compromise, Devil