Robert Burns Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Balance Quotes

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

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

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

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

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The world will be saved by the western woman.

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

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

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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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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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