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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. - Angela Merkel

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. Angela Merkel

Dignity, Human, Human Dignity, Cannot

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. Abraham Lincoln

Nature, History, Man, Heart, Past, Speak

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance. Vernon Howard

Truth, Acceptance, Never, Your, Awaits

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises. Aung San Suu Kyi

Culture, Weak, Achieve, Ability, Been

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States. Jefferson Davis

Constitution, Slave, Property, United

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. Mikhail Baryshnikov

Great, Organization, You, Plans, Belong

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman

World, Wish, Facts, Tyranny, Fact, Point

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell

Writing, Start, Constitution, You, Move

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises. Bhagat Singh

Struggle, Beginning, Think, Political

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Dewey

History, Man, Intellectual, Surrender

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved! Marquis de Lafayette

Patriotism, Violence, Fools, Conscience

Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else. Kevin Mitnick

People, Management, Control, Problem

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. Claire McCaskill

Work, Makeup, Ideas, People, Genius, You

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect. Ian Williams

Music, People, Expect, Take, Many, Than

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. Peter Eisenman

Power, Architecture, Need, More, Less

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state. Benjamin Netanyahu

Live, Peace, Decisions, World, Country

I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that. Kevin Hart

Time, I Am, Busy, You, Important, Enough

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. Helen Prejean

Government, Values, Moral, Dignity, Our

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. John Mayer

People, Think, Famous, Important, Know

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning. Mitch McConnell

Start, Process, Way, Will, Move, Like

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten. Poo Bear

Music, Time, Creative, Song, Process

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. Gunter Grass

Life, Art, Full, Uncompromising

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman

Facts, Investigation, Fact, Point, Where

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business. Dilip Shanghvi

Business, Good, End, You, Target, Things

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them. Julian Schnabel

Freedom, Painting, Me, You, Know, Paint

Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market. Angela Merkel

Good, Past, Reach, Never, Same, Outside

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