Extremes Quotes
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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
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If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
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Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.
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Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
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All extremes are dangerous.
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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
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Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Who can be patient in extremes?
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I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.
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Why should we not go to the extremes if we desire to play a part in the great world drama?...to go to the extremes is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness. Weakness is to compromise, to hesitate, to be halfhearted.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.
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I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.
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The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.
