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• A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Sweet, Flower, Mind

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1903). “My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons”

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• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Believe, Good Friend, Men

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• The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.45, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Employment, Cold, Hours

  "Address at Holy Cross (25 June 1919)". "Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages", Second edition, p. 231, 1919.

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Work, Males, Method

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• No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce--putting away!

  Victoria Woodhull

  Girl, Lying, Divorce

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

  Ric Edelman

  Thinking, Issues, Risk

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loss, Light, Joy

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• For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Stars, Sleep, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.22, Rutgers University Press

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• ... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

  Marie Corelli

  Ideas, Stuff, Buying

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.8, Health Research Books

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• Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.

  John McLeod

  Life, Football, Blessed

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• Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Sacrifice, Noble, Alliances

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• a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

  Dodie Smith

  Loss, Innocence, Penalties

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• It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Love, Gratitude, Expectations

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Jail, Married, Prison

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• If a man, cautious,
  hides his limp,
  Somebody has to limp it! Things
  do it; the surroundings limp.
  House walls get scars,
  the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

  Robert Bly

  Wall, Men, Car

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

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• [Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Men, Differences

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• ... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

  Ruth Benedict

  Lonely, Peace, War

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• The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

  Herman Melville

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Winning

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• Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

  Sangharakshita

  Expression, Achievement, Poverty

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• You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

  Tom DeLay

  Running, Jobs, Two

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• Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

  Jon Kyl

  People, Unemployment, New Work

  "GOP Sen. Kyl: Unemployment Benefits Make People Not Want To Get A Job" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

  Steve Aylett

  Butterfly, Wings, World

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