Quotes with balance-wheel

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  • Stephen King Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • George Orwell Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. J. Novak 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • James Baldwin A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Arthur Ward A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Eric Hoffer Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Campbell Brown After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Allen Ginsberg America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Saskya Pandita 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, himself his own dungeon.
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  • Frank Dane Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Anita Roddick But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bob Dylan Come writers and critics
    Who prophesize with your pen
    And keep your eyes wide
    The chance won't come again
    And don't speak too soon
    For the wheel's still in spin
    And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.'
    For the loser now will be later to win
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Horace Mann Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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