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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

- John Ralston Saul

Gabi was glassy eyed and his equilibrium was off.

- David Mendoza

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

- Marquis de Sade

Everything is on the table, including the continued independence for these three carriers, but in my opinion, that`s not likely, ... There`s an old saying that you have to break eggs to make omelet. The industry is looking for a new financial equilibrium. If you try to stay independent, in the near term you won`t gum up earnings, but long term, I think it`s an untenable situation.

- Kevin Murphy

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we`d want to know why and we`d go and find out why.

- Richard Taylor

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

- Paul Tsongas

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

- Romano Prodi

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

- Adam Cummings

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

- Ali Fabbro

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

- Allen Dulles

This must be so, because, when the Constitution was adopted, twelve of the thirteen states were slave states, and so there was no equilibrium.

- Andrew Norwood

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

- Andrew Norwood

Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.

- Andris Biedrins

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

- Anton Situmeang

I`m hoping we`ll have this continual glide path of rates going up and everything comes into equilibrium nice and easy.

- Arne Dankers