Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
~Eric Hoffer

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Balance is overrated.
~Thomas Leonard

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Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
~Thomas Kinkade

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But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.
~Jim Cantalupo

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Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
~Joan Cusack

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Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
~Douglas Hurd

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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
~Jim Clyburn

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I always put humour into my stories because if you construct a horrific scene of some kind you have to balance that with an equal quantity of humour.
~Nigel Kneale

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I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
~Kevin Richardson

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I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
~Donatella Versace

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I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.
~Wynonna Judd

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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.
~Robert Carlyle

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I'm usually balanced, but I've been out of balance when I've had to focus on a few things to the exclusion of more creative aspects.
~Michael Kennedy

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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
~Oprah Winfrey

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In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
~Louise Slaughter

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It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.
~Peter Weir

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It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
~Stone Gossard

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My guess is there are more women in the TV industry then there are on Wall Street. But it's that same idea of having to play in a man's world and finding that balance without being always stereotyped as a bitch.
~Charlotte Ross

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
~Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
~James Joyce

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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~Euripides

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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
~Max Beerbohm

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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
~Evangelista Torricelli

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The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.
~Schuyler Fisk

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The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
~Maurice Barres

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Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
~Peter Ustinov

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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
~Sally Schneider

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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
~Francis J. Braceland

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We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there.
~Sean Booth

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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.
~Barbara Jordan

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With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.
~Toshihiko Fukui

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