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The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ↗

— Maurice Barres

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On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending. ↗

— Steve Chabot

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

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I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

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I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. ↗

— Chris Christie

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I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

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