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“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince”

Form Freedom Arms Balance Capable Constitution Property Enterprise Possessed Stubborn Nobility Assembly Tenacious

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The balance of power is the scale of peace.”

Arms Balance Scales Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms Gun Rights Pro Gun Founding Fathers Gun 2 Amendment Founding Fathers Second Amendment Balance Of Power

Book:Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.”

Action Arms Balance Bottom Flailing

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.”

Soul Action Loss Arms Balance Reactions Upset Equilibrium Flailing

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.”

Past Arms Balance Atrocities Rectify

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.”

Knows Our Lives Changed Arms Balance Handstands Backbends

Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“I see myself as the God who will protect all of the animals that have no other way of voicing themselves. I am God, I see that, and I accept who I have become with open arms. All along I had no idea that those who will come to protect the animals and restore the balance won't be a God on a cloud, but us, this being, the being that I am!”

Way Ideas Animal Accepting Arms Balance Protect Clouds No Idea Open Arms

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.”

Ends Land Stupid Tears Arms Balance Sitting Metaphor Coffee Cups Chairs Spells Typical Spills Coffee Cup Stupid Things

Book:Him Her Him Again The End of Him

Source: Him Her Him Again The End of Him

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.”

Night Sound Hurt Dark Tree Wind Arms Listening Cold Balance Ears Rose Get Up Calculations Skulls Blackness Autistic Reckoning Wind In The Trees

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”

Self Past Form Arms Balance Argument Victim Excuse Commit Remove Atrocities Predator No Excuses Perpetuating Rectify Atrocities Committed

Author:Frank Herbert

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood