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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
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. -- Alexander Pope
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
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. -- Winston Churchill
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
Extremes are dangerous. -- Jonathan Mayhew
Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other. -- James Sheridan Knowles
Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth. -- Thomas Hood
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. -- Antoine Rivarol
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. -- Alexander Pope
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. -- Blaise Pascal
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. -- Robert Herrick
No violent extreme endures. -- Thomas Carlyle
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy. -- Vince Vaughn
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. -- Jean Cocteau
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes. -- Joe Biden
Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes. -- Michael Kors
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. -- John Updike
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. -- Alexander Hamilton
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. -- Robert W. Service
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. -- Clint Eastwood
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
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. -- Jurgen Habermas
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
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
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. -- Trent Reznor
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. -- Shirley Chisholm
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
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to. -- Kiran Desai
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype. -- Gary Cherone
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. -- Jean Baudrillard
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. -- Sam Houston
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
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. -- Robert Kennedy
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible. -- Cindy Sherman
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front. -- Phil Klay
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life. -- Mike Rowe
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.' -- Jane McGonigal
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. -- Paul Wellstone
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
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. -- King Tuff
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food. -- Joel Robuchon
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better. -- Ralph Lauren
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction. -- Virginia Postrel
Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. -- Sally Pearson
It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there's two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it's very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy. -- Nina Garcia
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. -- Michelle Bachelet
All extremes are dangerous. -- Virginia Woolf
Moderation shifts when extremes do. -- Mason Cooley
Perfect reason avoids all extremes. -- Moliere
Youth deals only in extremes ... -- Ursula Bloom
Who can be patient in extremes? -- William Shakespeare
The young are always in extremes. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Keep a mid course between two extremes. -- Ovid
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. -- David Bowie
The best things are placed between extremes. -- Aristotle
I don't know why I go to extremes. -- Billy Joel
I'm curious about the extremes of the world -- Matt Prior
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. -- Virginia Woolf
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. -- Rufus Choate
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. -- Cato the Younger
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. -- Fay Weldon
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. -- Quentin Crisp
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. -- John Updike
time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ... -- Aphra Behn
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. -- Bear Grylls
I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen. -- Keegan Connor Tracy
Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes. -- Carl Lentz
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. -- Eric Maisel
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters. -- Kyle Cassie
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. -- Warren Buffett
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . . -- Vincent de Paul
Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet. -- William Shakespeare
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. -- Carl Sagan
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves. -- Jerzy Kosinski
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. -- Moliere
Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction. -- Ray Davies
Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes. -- Rihanna
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. -- Aristotle
I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies. -- John Waters
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. -- Steven Strogatz
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. -- Klemens von Metternich
It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday. -- Jamie Oliver
Wherever Thou cast his eyes in extremes of love, a perfect creation is born. -- Jamil Hussain
This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. -- Alfred Bester
And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. -- John Milton
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. -- Carlos Fuentes
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. -- Benjamin Franklin
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. -- Francois Fenelon
Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. -- Mike Klepper
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. -- Leigh Hunt
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. -- Blaise Pascal
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general. -- Grimes
The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes. -- Tim Lebbon
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. -- Jonathan Swift
the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. -- Georgia Harkness
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. -- Edmund Burke
I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale. -- Mark Ruffalo
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. -- Thomas Kyd
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt

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