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Extremes Quotes

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
Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this down and attack anyone who deviates from it towards any extreme whatever. I am not going to be awkward, I readily consent to being put in the middle and refuse to be at the bottom end, not because it is the bottom but because it is the end, for I should refuse just as much to be put at the top. It is deserting humanity to desert the middle way. The greatness of... Blaise Pascal
Milan Kundera quote: "extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for..."
extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death. Milan Kundera
Margaret Atwood quote: "Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar."
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. Margaret Atwood
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress. Malcolm Gladwell
Hippocrates quote: "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
Terence quote: "Extreme law is often extreme injustice."
Extreme law is often extreme injustice. Terence
Bertrand Russell quote: "Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by..."
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them. Khalil Gibran
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Naomi Klein quote: "Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the..."
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. Naomi Klein
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. Peter Singer
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.(Interview, Time Magazine, February 20, 2005) Clint Eastwood

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