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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed."

Mean Balance Agriculture
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Rich Sommer Actor
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"I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins."

Hands Simple Balance
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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."

Believe Choices Balance
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor."

Children Age Balance
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."

Trying Balance Family
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed."

Hands Would Be Balance
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Laozi Philosopher
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"Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?"

Self Loss Balance
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"She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing."

Important Together Balance
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?"

Morning Balance Despair
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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."

Balance Crush Individuality
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things."

Trying Two Balance
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates."

Land Liberty Balance
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
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"Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it."

Needs Strong Balance
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May Sarton Poet
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"The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression."

Balance Stress Solitude
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