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  I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

  Frank Bruno

  Athlete, Mind, Ifs

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

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• We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

  Heather Wilson

  Oil, Land, Long

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• Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

  Anna Lindh

  Rights, Law, Democracy

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• My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

  Brit Hume

  People, Waiting, Literature

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Freedom, Mean, Power

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Buddhist, Acceptance, Mindfulness

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• I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .

  Rumi

  Load

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Night, Self

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892”, p.188, e-artnow

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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

  Plato

  Children, Mind, Essentials

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• Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Understanding, May, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Lectures on preaching. 2. Author's ed”, p.251

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• Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Looks, Fortune

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Ugly, Ill

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• The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

  Josh Billings

  Book, Heaven, Judgment

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• Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

  Homer

  Life, Eulogy, Razors

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Race, Car, India

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• The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

  Simon Sinek

  Strong, Giving, Feelings

  "True Friendship: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Careers, Crossings, Bits

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• I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

  Linus Torvalds

  Special, Different, Boards

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• The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

  William Galston

  Book, Taken, Political

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• Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

  Alicia Keys

  Views, Hip Hop, Stuff

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Coward, Human Nature, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.238, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Though you did eat all the pizza." "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on its two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted to know. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack." Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does this mean you're going to wolf out and eat me?" "Certainly not." Luke rose to toss the pizza box into the trash. "You would be stringy and hard to digest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Snacks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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