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• In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

  Roy Hattersley

  Political, Politics, Ridiculous

  Evening Standard, May 9, 1989.

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• Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

  Joseph Hall

  Passion, People, Fool

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• That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

  Jasmine Guy

  Doors, Feel Good, Poverty

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• The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

  Sharon Olds

  Village, Might, Horror

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

  John Pilger

  Country, Government, Labour

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sea, Rivers, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Too Much, Faults

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.355

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• So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost

  Conservative, Young, Radical

  "Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

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• I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

  Robert Morgan

  Father, Personality, Excess

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• It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Kids, Home

  "8 times Jennifer Garner was all of us when she talked about motherhood" by Allison Slater Tate, www.today.com. November 4, 2016.

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• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  William Graham Sumner

  Crush, Class, Organization

  William Graham Sumner (1943). “The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner”

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• Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Giving, Stories

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Example

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Alex, Silent

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Evil, Political, Politics

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.363, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

  Jeremy London

  Sports, Hockey, Snowboarding

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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Empty

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• I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Vision, World

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  Roger Moore

  Frustrated, Poverty, Violence

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  Steven Morrissey

  Communication, People, Inconvenience

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

  Howard Nemerov

  Sensual, Logic, Language

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• Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Position, Contrary, Moderates

  "The Will to Power".

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