Extremes Quotes - Page 7

• I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Fame, Adoration, Humans

  "25 Things You Don’t Know About Me: Jada Pinkett Smith". www.usmagazine.com. August 4, 2010.

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Mean, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Mean, Pride

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Hard Work, Commitment, Dedication

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• Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

  Christopher McDougall

  Spring, Common Sense, Psychology

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• My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

  David Guetta

  Eight, Streets Of Paris, Fake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• 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

  Attitude, Loneliness, Self

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Views, Data, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.173

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• That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Profound, Mind, Observation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.184

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• And feel by turns the bitter change
  Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

  John Milton

  Bogs, Bitter, Fierce

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598

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• 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

  Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Poverty, Urban, Appalachia

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

  David Batstone

  Goal, Entrepreneur, Poverty

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is - like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality.

  Bjork

  Cutting, Technology, Sound

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

  Patrick Leahy

  Regret, Philosophy, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

  Herb Kohl

  Philosophy, Mean, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Years, Issues

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Pain, Memories

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• There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

  Jeff Sessions

  Block, Trying, Trump

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• Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Islamic, Challenges, Roles

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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