Balance

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  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
        Joe Ancis   Best?
  • It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
        Charles Darwin   Best?
  • A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive James   Best?
  • I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.
        Dean Martin   Best?
  • Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
        Zig Ziglar   Best?
  • I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.
        Tom Wolfe   Best?
  • We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
        Mao Tse-tung   Best?
  • A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
        Chuck Palahniuk   Best?
  • A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.
        Elizabeth Grymeston   Best?
  • Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
        Clive Jones   Best?
  • We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
        Colley Cibber   Best?
  • All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
        Plato   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
        Confucious   Best?
  • When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
        Nicole Kidman   Best?
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
        Alain de Lille   Best?
  • Let the punishment match the offense.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
        Carl Schurz   Best?
  • Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
        James Bryce   Best?

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