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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Caroline Knapp Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Lord George Byron Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Barbara de Angelis Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Clarence Day You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Carre Otis You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 328
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Pat Barker You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
    Niemandsland (1993) 226
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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