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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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• Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Men, Use

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

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• Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

  Robert W. Service

  Winning, Saving, Easy

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• Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Witty, Government

  The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet preface (1911)

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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• When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Character, Thinking, Way

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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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• If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, Two, Netherlands

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• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  America, Mecca, Youth

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• It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

  Joe Biden

  Views, Foreign Policy, Policy

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• The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

  Edward Bond

  Greek, Tragedy, Said

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• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Simplicity, Culture

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• The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

  John Buford

  Night, Men, June

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• I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

  Sophia Bush

  Laughing, Worry, Guilt

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• No violent extreme endures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Violence, Violent, Endure

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• You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

  Jim Carrey

  Chocolate, Six Months, Lifestyle

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Patriotic, Men

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

  John Cusack

  Taken, Principles, Kitsch

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• I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

  Elizabeth I

  Suffering, Crowns, Reputation

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• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Ambition, Idols, Wings

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• When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Needs, Sometimes

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• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  Harold H. Greene

  Mean, Two Extremes, Lectures

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