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• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  Jane Mayer

  Military, Thinking, Abuse

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• I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Fate, Bitterness

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• People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

  Richard Thompson

  Romantic, Nature, People

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• The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

  Antonio Porchia

  Infancy Is, Brevity, Eternal

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Trying, Berries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sea, Rivers, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Too Much, Faults

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.355

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• So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost

  Conservative, Young, Radical

  "Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

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• I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

  Robert Morgan

  Father, Personality, Excess

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• 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

  Mom, Kids, Home

  "8 times Jennifer Garner was all of us when she talked about motherhood" by Allison Slater Tate, www.today.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Alex, Silent

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

  Geddy Lee

  Attitude, Responsibility, Swings

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• I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

  Jeremy London

  Sports, Hockey, Snowboarding

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• I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Vision, World

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  Roger Moore

  Frustrated, Poverty, Violence

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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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