- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balance Quotes
On balance in politics, censorship, health, and daily life.
Balance takes on very different meanings across these quotes, from a mid-century view on the balance of power across Europe to a modern debate over how much censorship is too much. See also Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.
- Nov 07, 2020
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My coach would push us off the balance beam and teach us how to fall. That helps with your body awareness, your air awareness, but even the training I had in cheerleading, gymnastics, bodybuilding, nothing prepares you for what you go through in the ring.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Trends
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- Nov 07, 2020
As digitalisation and the ageing population trends advance, international mobility and the development of employable skills are crucial to balance demographic gaps and surpluses as well as the deficit of skills across the world.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always did the cooking at home, and we always tried for balance. We've been vigilant about how and what our kids eat. For example, my son would just as soon go for the grapes as he would the chips... and the chips are baked.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020