"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."

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Alva Myrdal

#Balance Quotes

“When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.”
“I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.”
“In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

Source : Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.”
“Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols”
“Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.”

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