Extremes Quotes - Page 29

• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Maintenance

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

  Henri

  Pain, Two, Want

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• I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, New York, Ridiculous

  "I wanna go back to Dixie". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1960.

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• I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Writing, Suspense Novels, Violence

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Rocks, Two

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• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  Du Mu

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• Extreme justice is often injustice.

  Jean Racine

  Justice, Injustice

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• Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

  Gore Vidal

  Mean, Order, Matter

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

  George B. Cortelyou

  Ambition, Cities, Earth

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• We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Eye, Men, Views

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

  Brian Eno

  Hurt, Art, Real

  "Gossip is philosophy". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. May 1, 1995.

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• Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Gay, Assault Weapons

  "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

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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.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Eye, World, Want

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• You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.

  RuPaul

  Men, Naked, Born

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Love You, Self, Practice

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.19, Hay House, Inc

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• Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Suicide, Vote, No Confidence

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.63, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.

  Andromeda Romano-Lax

  Children, Couple, Book

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• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Gary Cherone

  Suicide, Philosophy, Writing

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• It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.

  Jerry Taylor

  Reflection, Weather, Damage

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• You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
  A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
  And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
  And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods
  And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
  As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

  Malcolm X

  Color, Long, People

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• Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

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• The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.

  Bill Ayers

  Determination, Regret, Lying

  "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Two, People

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