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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. -- Plutarch
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. -- Paul Wellstone
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. -- Ron Chernow
There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. -- Emma Thompson
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. -- Michelle Shocked
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. -- Howard Dean
Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist. -- Bob Uecker
Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try. -- Linda Bradford Raschke
There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance. -- Tom Cruise
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. -- Timothy Geithner
To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. -- Rodrigo Rato
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances. -- Deepak Chopra
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. -- Robert Breault
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. -- Carrie Fisher
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both. -- Peter R. Orszag
It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go. -- Danielle LaPorte
There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body -- Margot Kidder
There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body. -- Margot Kidder
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. -- Timothy Noah
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. -- Vince Cable
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. -- Ani DiFranco
There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true. -- Patty Griffin
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. -- Plato
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The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong. -- Irving Kirsch
Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. -- Robert Reich
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good. -- Pope Francis
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. -- Ani DiFranco
I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it. -- George Soros
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship. -- Warren Farrell
The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. -- Joss Whedon
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest. -- Lydia Lunch
Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality. -- Suzanne Somers
I have an amazing spouse; we're a team. He works, and I work, and we sort of do this dance with each other so that we can be present to our kids. But I think the whole 'balance' thing is an illusion; we just embrace the imbalance. -- Sarah Rafferty
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. -- Timothy Geithner
We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. -- David Suzuki
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance. -- Jane Siberry
By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind. -- Tarthang Tulku
You said love, I say chemical imbalance. -- Ian Kelsey
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Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. -- Clay Shirky
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance. -- Gregory Bateson
The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true, -- Daniel Okrent
When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. -- Ani DiFranco
IMBALANCE Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positivesKamil Ali -- Kamil Ali
When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity. -- Bryant McGill
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation. -- Marcelo Gleiser
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. -- Mel Brooks
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. -- Janet Morris
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created. -- Alan Chadwick
Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity. -- Jerry Thomas
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. -- Henri Matisse
There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live. -- Tehmina Durrani
In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. -- Aisha Mirza
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard? -- Mitch Albom
Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective. -- Karen Armstrong
The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar. -- John Gutfreund
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. -- Paul Winter
To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan. -- Lisa Graham McMinn
I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. -- Edward R. Murrow
This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance. -- Ann Wilson
love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. -- Terri Cheney
The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women. -- Evan Osnos
What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering. -- Darrell Calkins
...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. -- Lawrence Millman
Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its psychic/sexual imbalance through each person becoming whole again. -- Anne Rush

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