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“Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.”

Sides Balance Opposites Weight Scales Songwriting Touring

Author:Tommy Shaw

“A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.”

Opposites Scales Feathers

Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

“Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.”

Depends Demand Opposites Extremes Scales Cease Momentum Beam Equilibrium Cheapness

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.”

Able Wealth Poverty Balance Opposites Weight Eternity Prosperity Scales Affliction Wealth And Poverty

Author:Joseph Addison

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.”

Humans Matter Courses Community Deals Opposites Affection Scales Broads Interaction Human Relations Human Relationships Legitimacy

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.”

Men Looks Made Running Lasts Natural Happened Models Opposites Impact Decades Scales Global Warming Pollution Plugs Correspondence Fluctuation

Author:Al Gore

“We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.”

Ideas Reality Lost Truth Is Opposites Myth Scales Poetry Is Vocabulary Discussing

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.”

People Men Believe Ends Lying Memories Sin Taken Eternal Opposites Errors Injustice Forgotten Deeds Scales Deceiving Vengeance Oblivion Rectification

Author:Milan Kundera