compensates

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. Margaret Drabble

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. Augusto Roa Bastos

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. Ben Kingsley

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans. Tom Harkin

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them. Terry Pratchett

A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost. Henry S. Haskins