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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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Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was a...

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The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, ...

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StarhawkThe Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on so...

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all...

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The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always...

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never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls of...

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His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woma...

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The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identifi...

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It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You...

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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to d...

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In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to ...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appet...

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It'...

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on...

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The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

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Walter BenjaminIlluminations: Essays and Reflections

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony ...

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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what desig...

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William A. DembskiSigns of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already ...

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I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and h...

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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balanc...

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AeschylusThe Oresteia

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting A...

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...

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Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to bala...

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Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scare...

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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhi...

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I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or betw...

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Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's...

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Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help ...

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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give...

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I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

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Barry LopezCrossing Open Ground

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ...

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Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love i...

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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...

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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...

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Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

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Charles M. SchulzPeanuts Guide to Life: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Best-Loved Cartoon Characters

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsib...

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To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

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Cormac McCarthyThe Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's...

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No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about ...

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Dave EggersYou Shall Know Our Velocity!

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. ...

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerou...

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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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