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Extreme justice is often injustice. -- Jean Racine
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Extreme justice is extreme injustice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Extreme complication is contrary to art. -- Claude Debussy
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -- William Shakespeare
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. -- Bertrand Russell
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. -- Hippocrates
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. -- Margaret of Valois
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror -- Georges Bataille
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries. -- Bryant H. McGill
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. -- Margaret Atwood
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. -- Seneca the Younger
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. -- Kofi Annan
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence. -- James Dobson
I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer. -- China Mieville
Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder. -- Michael Savage
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. -- Naomi Klein
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. -- Jeffrey Sachs
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. -- Gary Cherone
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay. -- Joel-Peter Witkin
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives. -- Steven Hill
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. -- Sammy Hagar
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. -- Edward Gibbon
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common. -- Lucy Walker
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots. -- Gordon Allport
I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.' -- Mike Ness
To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities. -- Cheryl Richardson
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. -- Peter Singer
Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times. -- Nuno Bettencourt
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. -- Wilhelm Reich
Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground. -- Felix Baumgartner
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week. -- Eva LaRue
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. -- William Butler Yeats
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. -- Groucho Marx
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive. -- Gisele Bundchen
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. -- Plato
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. -- Elizabeth I
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. -- Alice Walker
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. -- Dalai Lama
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing. -- Rajneesh
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
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. -- Eugene Field
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. -- Chris Cleave
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. -- Brad Pitt
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
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. -- Plato
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. -- Al Franken
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. -- Robert Byrd
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen. -- Lucy Walker
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery. -- Florence Welch
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference. -- Richard Branson
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time. -- Ban Ki-moon
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. -- Dietrich Mateschitz
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless. -- Sharon Salzberg
As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. -- Gordon Ramsay
I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had. -- Don Everly
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
My childhood was extreme. -- Tori Amos
No violent extreme endures. -- Thomas Carlyle
I always go extreme ways. -- Niki Lauda
We are facing extreme volatility. -- Carlos Ghosn
And when in doubt, be extreme. -- Genesis P-Orridge
The extreme always makes an impression. -- Jeff Hardy
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating. -- David Mumford
When extremists come together extreme things happen. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the relief after extreme tension -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions. -- Madeleine Albright
Justice in the extreme is often unjust. -- Jean Racine
Push your limit to the absolute extreme. -- Gordon Ramsay
All evils are equal when they are extreme. -- Pierre Corneille
War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience. -- Dan Snow
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety. -- Gabriele Nanni
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. -- Hippocrates
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. -- Michael Tippett
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. -- Joseph Hall
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. -- Daniel Kahneman
The extreme always seems to make an impression. -- Christian Slater
The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing. -- Janice Dickinson
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. -- Jon Franklin
Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. -- Julie Burchill
Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity. -- Robin Sharma
I like things that are unique and extreme. -- Rick Rubin
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. -- Walter Benjamin
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. -- Herbert Croly
Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence. -- Alexandra Daddario
in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury. -- Fred Vargas
NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds. -- Newt Gingrich
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking. -- Dana Gould
Our visibility shouldn't be subject to such extreme circumstances. -- Janet Mock
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. -- Iris Apfel
Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos ... -- Kate Green
Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. -- Leigh Brackett
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
So when I'm working out I do things extreme. -- Taylor Dane
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events. -- James Geary
So when I'm working out I do things extreme. -- Taylor Dane
Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. -- Eric Hoffer
I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme. -- Taylor Wilson
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. -- Homer
Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect -- Khaleel Datay
I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun. -- Kellan Lutz
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade. -- Philip Kaufman
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme. -- Sakyong Mipham
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. -- John Dewey
I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports. -- Daniella Monet
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. -- Daniel Defoe
To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal. -- Vanilla Ice
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. -- Roy Hattersley

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