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“We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.”

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Author:Mac Thornberry

“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.”

Needs Giving Sides Black White Common Brain Player Team Football Balance Skills Clubs Common Sense Managers Soccer Chairman Flair

Author:Ron Noades

“I think that's what you and I have in common, Donatella Versace, that careful balance. It makes me proud to be an Italian. In the end, I am proud to do what I do.”

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Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.”

Should Different Country President Common Balance Vote Vices Tickets Representing Vice President

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry