"But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him."
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"Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done."
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"Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned."
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"I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it."
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"I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited."
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"It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient."
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"In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft."
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"I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?"
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"Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?"
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"Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down."
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"I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance."
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"Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'."
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"As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have."
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"A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form."
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"Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen."
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"Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality."
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"What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves."
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"What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half."
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"The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance."
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"Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other."
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