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We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet...

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David SuzukiThe Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of...

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Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They...

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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational...

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Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in...

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The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it ...

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Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

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In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and th...

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Deepak ChopraThe Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...

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No, there's a group of hardened, fossilised men opposed by fresh young revolutionaries as John Butte...

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To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to ...

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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

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The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own s...

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He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...

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The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p...

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The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...

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My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...

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Ellen DeGeneresSeriously... I'm Kidding

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rathe...

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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. ...

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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty...

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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does no...

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...

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I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an ope...

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Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and ...

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Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying...

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The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in ...

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What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexu...

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If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the ...

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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may n...

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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your hea...

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Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you ...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used...

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...

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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...

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One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. ...

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Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really r...

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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that do...

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Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spi...

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My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home ...

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If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me....

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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pres...

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The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the nam...

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A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably...

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The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n...

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Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding...

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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so mu...

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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...

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John Stuart MillAn Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the...

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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the mo...

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When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughl...

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Karl BarthEvangelical Theology: An Introduction

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,bu...

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Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi...

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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every d...

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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to bal...

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Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some wil...

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I eat mostly organic, but I love macaroni and cheese, Mexican food, and egg-and-cheese croissants. S...

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what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is h...

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It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that univers...

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful an...

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What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowin...

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You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: ...

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My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice alway...

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It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with ...

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There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have ...

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It’s still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we’d be sitting pre...

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Paolo BacigalupiThe Drowned Cities

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the in...

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The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics ...

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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my d...

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Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

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René GuénonThe Crisis of the Modern World

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it se...

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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and...

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Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your hous...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No mat...

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the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...

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Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her ...

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He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and sla...

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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of w...

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Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be s...

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