"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."

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Jalal Talabani

#Compromise Quotes #Capitulation Quotes

“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”
“IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.”
“They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.”
“I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.”
“I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.”
“'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.”
“Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.”
“C'est pas de l'alpinisme, Ã§a, c'est la guerre.”

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