Moderates Quotes - Page 4

• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wrath, People

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• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Action

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

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• It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Effort

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Talent, Ability, Deficiency

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

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• The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Giving, Sincere, Prudence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

  Seneca the Younger

  And Love, Ends, Prudence

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• I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

  Francis Bacon

  Taken, Knowledge, Science

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.274

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• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

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• Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

  Epicurus

  Wine, Order, Joy

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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, Movement, Chance

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• Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

  Mark Thomas

  Religion, Atheism, Different

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• The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

  Mel Gibson

  Spiritual, Regret, Past

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• Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. The faster population increases, the more help will be got to draw off the water, and consequently an increasing quantity will be taken every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Years, Land

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.301, Penguin UK

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• Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Mediocrity, Range

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• ...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  Richard L. Evans

  Marriage, Wise, Respect

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• I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

  Ann Coulter

  Tired, Gun, Trying

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• It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Federalism, Unlimited, Proportion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.158, Coventry House Publishing

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• If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Class, Citizens, Taxation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Race, Ability

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• These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Thinking, Insane, Conservative

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• The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

  Dan Rather

  New York, Party, Voters

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• Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

  Emilio Estevez

  Lines, Conservative

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• When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

  Thomas Keller

  Style

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