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Any agreement requires a compromise, and compromise means you have to trust the other side to follow through. Frankly, I do not think this basic confidence exists on either side.


Chu Shulong

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VIRONIKA TUGALEVA I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
ALAN SUGAR This seems to be a compromise.
HAROLD WALKER We would not intentionally compromise its integrity when there are other ways to tell the history of...
JEFF IDELSON Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the ...
DANIEL PIPES In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the...
NEIL GORSUCH Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
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MICHAEL BADNARIK Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don...
NUNO ROQUE The Chinese side, of course, said there is no room for compromise. I told them that this issue is re...
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...
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CASS JOHNSON This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and wor...
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PARKER POSEY All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any com...
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MOHANDAS GANDHI Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
MICHAEL SPILLER We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--on...
ELIZABETH GILBERT On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...
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EMANUEL CLEAVER I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made ...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
JIM DEMINT Isn't this real political will? ... Syria is doing all it can do, but the problem is on the other si...
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MARGARET THATCHER The situation is very tenuous on the equipment side and any slowdown in demand in the equipment side...
BARRY HYMAN It is the whole environment that is created in the doctor-patient relationship, in that it is not re...
JAMES ALLEN Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
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BILL DODSON I say it frankly, we will not only be on their side, we will be in the forefront.
AHMED JIBRIL If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one l...
GAO XINGJIAN I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell wa...
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MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI We will not compromise on our sovereignty,
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LENNY GOLDBERG If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
BILL OWENS We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to c...
LARRY WALL Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.
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