Extremes Quotes
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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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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.
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I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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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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The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.
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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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There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
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The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
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Who can be patient in extremes?
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The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.
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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
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The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.
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As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
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I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.
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In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.
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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But Margaret Thatcher carried it to extremes.
