#compensate

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#certain #compensate #deserve #duty #earn

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#console #given #him #humor #imagination

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#age #children #compensated #confirms #control

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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compensate #cultivation #every #kind #make

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#compensate #console #given #him #imagination

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american #american people #been #caused #clean

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciously #doubt #fanatic #man #over

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#compensated #crime #doctor #does #fit