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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. (Euripides) |
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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. (Peter Mere Latham) |
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| Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. (Plutarch) |
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| A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. (Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long) |
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| Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly? (Howard Zinn) |
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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, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. (Hans Konig) |
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| The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. (Cicero 55 BC) |
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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_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality. (Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail) |
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| Sometimes the world puts a spin on life. When our equilibrium returns to us, we understand more because we've seen the whole picture. (Davis Barton) |
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| A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand. (Billy Connolly) |
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| The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Carl Jung) |
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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. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe O Magazine April 2003) |
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| We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. (Francis J. Braceland) |
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| Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. (Jose Ortega y Gasset) |
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| Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. (Eric Hoffer) |
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| I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. (Oprah Winfrey O Magazine April 2003) |
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| Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein) |
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| ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. (Paul Valery) |
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| Don't hold on too long, but don't let go to soon. Find a balance. (Morrie Swartz) |
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