Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Opposites Quotes, Balance Quotes

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

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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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I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

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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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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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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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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

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The world will be saved by the western woman.

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What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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

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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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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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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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It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the 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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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

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

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