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• the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Sadness, Littles

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• The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

  Warren Buffett

  Typical, Looks, Dobermans

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• Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Understanding, Progress

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• The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

  Orrin Woodward

  Government, Dictionary

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2015

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• And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Grief, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.268

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• Compensation is counterintuitive:  The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you.  But few people perceive this simple truth.  Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away.  That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Simple, People, Giving

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• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

  Alfred Adler

  Goal, Psychology, Feelings

  From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.

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• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Heaven, Darkness

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Quality, Reason Why

  Letter to August Derleth (25 December 1930), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 584), 1996.

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• During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Fighting, Voice, Want

  "Gaddafi defends Somali pirates" by Argaw Ahine, www.nation.co.ke. February 5, 2009.

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• No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

  Seneca the Elder

  Forgiveness, Loss, Evil

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• The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Giving, Perfect

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• As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

  Lew Wallace

  Gratitude, Fighting, Remembrance

  Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Art, Sorrow, Inevitable

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• There is no evil without its compensation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil

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• God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any other individual from pain, sorrow, or economic disaster, but He does give assurance the He will help us through and that there will be compensations. "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you." These are the words of Jesus.

  Daniel A. Poling

  Jesus, Pain, Giving

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• Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Names, Ideas, Justice

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• I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

  Marco Pierre White

  Mother, Regret, Anchors

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

  Sam Altman

  People, Founders

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• As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

  Sam Altman

  Band, Feels, Grows

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• Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.

  Mervyn King

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  Bill Johnson

  Military, America, Pay

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• The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Luxury, Hours, Wells

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

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• Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

  Voltaire

  Sleep, Care, Given

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