Alan Dershowitz Quotes, Character Quotes, Balance Quotes

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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

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The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

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China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

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I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.

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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

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It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

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The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

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Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

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