Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery." ❋ Rizwan A. Rahmani (2010)
He was young, tall, handsome, brave, and dashing, and possessed a balance-wheel of such good judgment that in his sphere of action no occasion could arise from which he would not reap the best results. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A hair in the balance-wheel, a little rust on a pinion, a bend in a tooth of the escapement, a something so slight that only the practised eye of the watchmaker can discover it, may be the source of all the difference. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted, and which had a certain excellence which no single genius, however extraordinary, could hope to create. ❋ Unknown (2006)
QUOTATION: Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ❋ Unknown (1989)
These atomic frequencies in the magnetic field are so characteristic for each element and its isotopes that they are more undisturbed and regular than the balance-wheel, pendulum and vibrating quartz-crystal in our modern chronometers. ❋ Unknown (1964)
On the world level, it has been a balance-wheel for stability, carrying forward into world affairs the pattern for peace, by serving to mediate between the United States and the Soviet Union. ❋ Unknown (1953)
For once more it was work that had sustained her, desperate, incessant work, which, by its regularity and monotony, by the constant recurrence of the same duties and the same motions, served as a balance-wheel to her thoughts. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Do it, and get up another book -- the lively lady to sketch men and manners, the metaphysical balance-wheel contributing the solid chapters on laws, politics, science and education." ❋ Various (N/A)
Mr. Cooper freely acknowledges that his wife has been the balance-wheel in his life that has brought him what success he has gained. ❋ Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp (N/A)
I know, too, that when a strike threatens, he, who is now in the union because he is convinced he can help best there, is the balance-wheel, and prevents radical unreason and its results. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)
But, possibly, the most wonderful invention which has been the result of the inventive conception of Mr. Edison is the phonograph, a simple apparatus consisting in its original mechanism of a simple cylinder of hollow brass, mounted upon a shaft, at one end of which is a crank for turning it, and at the other a balance-wheel, the whole being supported by two iron uprights. ❋ Harry A. Lewis (N/A)
"Spinsters are the balance-wheel of the universe machinery," declared ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)
Always more solid than noisy, and more reserved than obtrusive, she has ever served as the great balance-wheel in the mighty engine of our national organization. ❋ Joseph A. Seiss (N/A)
He must be a born leader or misleader of men, or must have been sent into the world unfurnished with that modulating and restraining balance-wheel which we call a sense of humor, who, in old age, has as strong a confidence in his opinions and in the necessity of bringing the universe into conformity with them as he had in youth. ❋ Various (N/A)
