#lance

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#attitudes #authorities #censored #china #chinese

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#balance of power #between #democracy #elites #imbalance

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's. ↗

— Brock Yates

#career #did #embarking #freelance #i

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#balanced #behind #breath #brought #come

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety. ↗

— Bronowski

#balance #golden-mean #philosophy #science #thought

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#around #away #balance #being #bit

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. ↗

— James Joyce

#ground #happy #hunting #lost #minds

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#balance #connection #i #learned

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. ↗

— Donna Karan

#challenge #comfort #constant #design #desirable

Everything in life... has to have balance. ↗