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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

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Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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

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He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.

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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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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

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In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

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

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

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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

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I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

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It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

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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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