"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest……" — Criss Jami

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a… — Pope Benedict XVI
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.… — Mortimer Adler
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation -… — Benazir Bhutto
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what… — Ambrose Bierce
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. — Arthur Bloch

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