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“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”
Cyril Connolly
“We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.”
John Naisbitt
“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”
Horace Mann
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”
Brigham Young
“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”
Terry Pratchett
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
Susan Sontag
“Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Carrie: Smoking is the only thing that keeps me balanced.”
Sex and the City
“Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.”
Dan Rather
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.”
Jennifer Lopez
“The number one thing leaders can do to facilitate balance is to support flexibility and understand the needs of your people.”
Jim Mitchell
