"Don't confuse symmetry with balance."
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"Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen."
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"Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned."
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"Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind."
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"Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor."
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"Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful."
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"I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship."
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"Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated."
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."
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"I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance."
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"I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life."
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"Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all."
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"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."
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"Step not beyond the beam of the balance."
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"If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress."
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"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."
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"A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process."
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"The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up."
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"The essence of health is inner balance."
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"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."
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