"Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered……" — Anne Lamott

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• Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast — Minna Antrim
• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of… — James Russell Lowell
• Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou
• Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many… — Kate Burton
• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this… — Henry David Thoreau
• Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be… — Julien Torma
• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast… — Indra Devi
• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the… — Félix J. Palma
• The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more… — Adolf Hitler
• A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it… — Steve Fossett
• Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett

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