“You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.” MindHardStatesWiseBuddhismBalanceStuckState Of MindBeing Wise Author:Frederick Lenz
“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years” YearsRealStatesProblemGoneNeededBalanceImportanceSouthChecksAccountabilityTransparencyCarolinaSouth CarolinaNeeded Someone Author:Gwen Ifill
“To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.” KindStatesHoursBalanceConsciousFlowAll KindsUnconsciousConscious And UnconsciousUnconscious Thoughts Author:Frederick Lenz
“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.” IfsWorldShouldFirstsLooksStatesCan DoRoomsRaceFineBalanceMajorityCaliforniaHopefulMicrocosm Author:William J. Clinton
“The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesBalanceAccountsTradeCurrentsUsualItemsDeficitPayment Author:Robert C. Solomon
“If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.” IfsStatesHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesBalanceRepublicanCongressChecksWhite HouseSenate Author:Patty Murray
“The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.” WorldWayArtCountryStatesFoundUnitedUnited StatesBalanceEnglandGermanyReportsCanadaMuseumsNew WorldStubbornShockingCouncilHalfwayOld And New Author:Michael Audain
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.” LittlesStillsStatesReasonSpiritualOrderInterestBalanceHigherImportancePreparationRevelations Author:James F. Cooper
“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .” IfsShouldLongStatesAbleNaturalBalanceRootsAnarchyCatastropheAnarchismDeep RootsOvertaking Author:John Zerzan