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• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  Laura Riding

  Disappointment, Self, Victory

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”

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• Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.

  Ruskin Bond

  Book, Special People, Joy

  Ruskin Bond (2014). “Uncles, Aunts and Elephants: A Ruskin Bond Treasury”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Action, Inherent

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

  Roald Dahl

  Giving, Soul, Fool

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, People, Used

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Tattoo, Cowboy, Hats

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• There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Age, Relief, Realization

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”

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• Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Evil, Giving

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  People, Add, Awful

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Forever, Secret

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.434, 谷月社

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• Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Trying, Feuds, Demand

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.17, Macmillan

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• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Cheating, Learning

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• I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

  Charlie Munger

  Vipers, Shirts, Consultants

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

  Warren Buffett

  Lines, Pay, Ceo

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• And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Sunset, Sight, Storm

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• In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Light, Liberty, States

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• The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Personal Qualities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

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• Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

  Dan Miller

  Energy, Investing Your Time, Purpose

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.87, B&H Publishing Group

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• I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Law, Effort, Return

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• The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.

  Peter Blegvad

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Pain, Feet, Knees

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Law, Safety

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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