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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family ticket.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.