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Letter "B" » balances
«As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.»
Author: Henry Beston
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«I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living»
Author: James Cameron
(Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)
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Magic
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«Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
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balances, businessmen, checks, checks and balances, compromised, crooked, government officials, make out, officials
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, biographies, bits, bits and pieces, cultural, drag, go to bed, impedimenta, pairs, refer, single bed, social class, social classes
«It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
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balances, defended, endeavoring, ethnic, existing, traditionally
«And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.»
«And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.»
Author: Bible
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balances, sealed, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, weighed, witnesses
«Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.»
«He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.»
«And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.»
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