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«No other success can compensate for failure in the home.»
«A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.»
Author: Fernando Botero
(Artist)
| Keywords:
bison, caves, cave man, compensate, era, landscape, nourishing, oases, oasis, painted, prehistoric, rudeness, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls, sensual
«Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.»
«One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
brain, brain dead, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, dead, one way, pretend, tiniest
«One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
absorbed, compensate, excrement, losses, perspiration, rejected, respiration, taking place
«Incompetence - When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.»
Author: Larry Kersten
(Author, Sociologist)
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compensate, compensates, doubling, earnestly, incompetence, no end
«If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, weapons, willpower
«Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Imagination,
Sense of humor
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compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, console, consoles, consoling, sense of humor
«Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cultivation, make up, natural, natural ability
«So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
chastity, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cruel, discretion, display, employ, force of law, in public, loud, obliged, obliges, obliging, privacy, such as
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