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• When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Character, Thinking, Way

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• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  William Graham Sumner

  Crush, Class, Organization

  William Graham Sumner (1943). “The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner”

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• 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

  Writing, Giving, Stories

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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

  Giving, Full Potential, Excess

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• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Evil, Political, Politics

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.363, Oxford Paperbacks

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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Empty

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• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Example

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• If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, Two, Netherlands

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• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  America, Mecca, Youth

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• It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

  Joe Biden

  Views, Foreign Policy, Policy

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• The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

  Edward Bond

  Greek, Tragedy, Said

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• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Simplicity, Culture

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• The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

  John Buford

  Night, Men, June

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• I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

  Sophia Bush

  Laughing, Worry, Guilt

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• No violent extreme endures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Violence, Violent, Endure

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• 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

  Chocolate, Six Months, Lifestyle

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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

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• 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

  Fear, Sometimes, Modern

  Winston Churchill (1990). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain”

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• 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

  Stars, Patriotic, Men

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

  John Cusack

  Taken, Principles, Kitsch

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• I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

  Elizabeth I

  Suffering, Crowns, Reputation

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• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Ambition, Idols, Wings

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• When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Needs, Sometimes

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