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• I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

  Howard Zinn

  Regret, Political, Needs

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Thinking

  "Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. April 13, 2015.

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• Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

  Jo Nesbo

  Essentials, Needs, Penance

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• Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strings Attached, Needs, Too Good To Be True

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  Yanni

  Hours, Hundred, Miles

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• The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

  Trudi Canavan

  Ends, Lows, Magician

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Novelists, Thumbs, Morality

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

  Juanes

  Work Family, Parts Of Life, Personal Life

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• When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

  Tom Freston

  Girlfriend, Moving, Loss

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• If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

  Wallace Stegner

  Exercise, Forever, Needs

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.17, Penguin

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• All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Future, Past, Sheets

  Nicolas Darvas (2006). “How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits”, p.98, Harriman House Limited

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• Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

  Julian Assange

  Incentives, Bitcoin, Starting

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• I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

  Sadie Jones

  Mind, Letters, Bills

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• I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Mom, Wife, Wish

  "Angela Ahrendts: The Burberry CEO who reinvented a heritage brand for the digital age" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2013.

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• When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Skills, Challenges, Rewards

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• My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

  Donald Bren

  Unique, Two, Orange

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• Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Population, Weapons, Pressure

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.

  Chris Sharma

  Climbing, Goal, Creative

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Two, Trying

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Caring, Media, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

  Maya Tiwari

  Medicine, Needs, Medical

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Sides, Sometimes

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• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Self

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• Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

  Carl Sandburg

  Destiny, America, Vitality

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