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Maurice Barrs
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The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
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Oprah Winfrey
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I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
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Bette Midler
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Malcolm Gladwell
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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Eric Hoffer
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 59.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
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William Arthur Ward
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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Hellen Keller
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Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Anais Nin
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I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
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David Allman
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The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
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George Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Aldous Huxley
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When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
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Clark Kerr
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A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 167.
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But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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Henri Matisse
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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Simone Weil
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Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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James Grover Thurber
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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
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What I dream of is an art of balance.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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Avert misunderstanding by calm poise and balance.
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Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
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"Captain, any action we take.will affect the balance of power."-Tovek
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"War is never imperative." McCoy, Balance of Terror, stardate 1709.2
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"I'm having trouble keeping my balance," said Tom parenthetically.
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"It's not as if lives hang in the balance, right?" - - Calvin
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"It's not as if LIVES hang in the balance, Right?" - Calvin
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"You believe only I can restore the balance?" - Picard
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If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. N
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For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway
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"Does the tongue hanging out help his balance?" - "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
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