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"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."
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"When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!"
"But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right."
"Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!"
"You are always going to meet disturbances outside yourself, it's the experience of living ~ There will be dark days and there will be days of laughter and somewhere in between you'll create a healthy balance within yourself and call it a life. We can't stop the storm, but we can learn to watch it pass."
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"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
"I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated."
"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."
"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
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