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• Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.

  Peter Singer

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

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• Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

  Steven Spielberg

  Taken, Kids, America

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• But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, People, Stronger

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

  Kristen Stewart

  Running, People, Creative

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• I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their rightwing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

  Maurice Strong

  Taken, Views, Wings

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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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.

  Cass Sunstein

  Thinking, People, Human Nature

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• Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Strong, Passion

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Order, Silence

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• Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

  Gilles Deleuze

  Vanity, Depth, Draws

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boredom, Bored, Antidote

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• You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

  Richard Russo

  Judging, Ability, Capability

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.296, Atlantic Books

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• Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.23, Penguin

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• Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience." Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual.

  Gary Chapman

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• Cameron threw her hands up in frustration. “What is this so-called ‘look’?” Whatever it was, she was going to have to start taking extreme measures to guard against it. Amy grinned. “You know the Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom hasn’t eaten for days and he imagines Jerry looking like a ham? Kind of like that.

  Julie James

  Frustration, Hands, Cartoon

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• What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Thinking, Importance

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• You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

  Marie Lu

  Thank You, Kindness, Dying

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• Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mean, Personality, Way

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.50, Penguin

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• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Past, Oxygen

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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• For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Moving, Loss, Grieving

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Purpose, Causes

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.130

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Time

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, May

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