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“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.”

“There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.”

Ifs Running Loses Loss Mistake Cutting Balance Taxes Bigger Presses Entrepreneur Checks Appropriate More Money Pits Printing Printing Press

Author:Peter Schiff

“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”

Book Seems Nature Loss Balance Disaster

Book:The Last Resort: A Novel

Source: The Last Resort: A Novel

“When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.”

Long Feelings Moving Term Loss Serious Balance Passionate Long Term Girlfriend Long Term Relationship Jilted

Author:Tom Freston

“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.”

“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“Eat more berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.”

Helping Memories Loss Balance Aging Variety Reverse Strawberries Blueberries Raspberries

Author:David H. Murdock

“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

“Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.”

Understanding Loss Poor Company Balance Finance Sheets Balance Sheets

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

Kind Important Use Memories Loss Interesting Cities Saws Pieces Balance Significant Dramatic Neighborhood Manhattan Lively

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”

“Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.”

Want Done Loss Balance Want Something Amends Make Things Right

Book:Memoir from Antproof Case

Source: Memoir from Antproof Case

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; 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.”

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

Ifs Looks Joy Suffering Winning Loss Deals Balance Sorrow Appreciate Illness Define You

Author:Mark Twain

“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.”

Trying Years Loss Modern Balance Activity Consequence Aspect Investment Financial Scales Traditional Gambling Massive Sheets Banking Lending Retail Casinos Balance Sheets Investment Banking

Author:Vince Cable