"The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise."
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"You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent."
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"Cooling bodies gravitate and heat as they gravitate-heating bodies radiate, and cool as they radiate."
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"I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't."
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"It is very hard to answer the oft-posed questions about how Abraham Lincoln would respond to some current condition. My favorite story on that count is that the late great Lincoln scholar Don Fehrebacher was asked, during the struggles over bussing for racial balance a few years ago, what Lincoln would say about "bussing" and he thought awhile and then answered : "what Lincoln would say would be: "What's a bus?""
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"There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay."
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"With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him."
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"The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design."
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"Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight."
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"Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason."
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"If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man."
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"When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce."
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"The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness."
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"Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ."
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"to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank."
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"If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget."
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"We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances."
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"I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance."
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"The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets."
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"Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging."
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