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• All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Responsibility, Artist, Drawing

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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

  May Sarton

  Patience, Art, Patient

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Zero, Numbers, Absence

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• We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Believe, Order

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• A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Depth, Agendas

  "Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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• A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

  Louis Tice

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

  Vincent Massey

  Understanding, Function, Turns

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address on the occasion of the Centenary of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, April 17, 1952, 1959.

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• Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.

  Luther Burbank

  Sweet, Children, Sunshine

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• A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Teacher, Loss

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• In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Self, Breathing

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• A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Fighting, Mma

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• People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Introduction

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• A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

  Mark Lawrence

  Views, Balance, World

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, Book 3)”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

  Eddie Huang

  Trying, Cleansing, Diets

  "All Eddie Huang Ever Wanted Was Everything". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

  Criss Jami

  Simple, Names, Wings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Lines, Narcissism

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• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

  Saul Bellow

  Justice, Diversity, Promise

  1976 Nobel prize lecture, Stockholm,12 Dec.

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• [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Silence, Mind

  "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

  Beverly Pepper

  Art, Anxiety, Imbalance

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• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.

  Rachel Carson

  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Christian, Giving, Anxiety

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Strong, Past

  "The Power of the Feminine Self: Manhood Liberated from Violence Against Women" by Payam Akhavan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Giving, Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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