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Irving Babbitt

"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."

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"Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons."

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"Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."

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"You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys."

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"Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up."

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"If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love."

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"Spiritual highs help you overcome emotional lows."

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"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"

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"The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers."

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"There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed bedding while she lovingly rolls her sweet shoulders into his chest. Whereas, there are times to be stoic and solitary-sleeping alone on a wooden board with twill sheets and splinters that scratch the skin."

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"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
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"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
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"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
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"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
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"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
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