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• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Mad, Long

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

  Kenneth Clark

  Animal, Achievement, Library

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.

  Joe Wright

  Children, Eye, Adults

  Source: collider.com

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• From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

  Oleta Adams

  Spiritual, Singing, Church

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Wine, Thinking, California

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.

  Russell James

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

  Joan Cusack

  Men, Needs, Avoiding Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

  Bill Gates

  People, Hearing, Facts

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• I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

  Adam Gopnik

  Writing, Thinking, Speak

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Jobs, Debt

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Creating, Focus, Peaceful

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.449, Mango Media Inc.

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• Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

  Billy Taylor

  Piano, Tone, Action

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• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, Success And Failure

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• If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Integrity, Income, Return

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• There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

  Joe Berlinger

  Trials, Television, Lines

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• The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.93, SPCK

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• I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

  Louise Hay

  Wells

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.106, Hay House, Inc

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• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, People, Band

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• One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

  Jack Welch

  Thoughtful, Fringe, Careful

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Priorities, Tests

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• I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Kids, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude
  from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Attitude, Heart, Friendly

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• I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

  Mike Duke

  Jobs, Thinking, Order

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