Moderates Quotes - Page 9

• Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may be compared to a great reservoir of water, supplied by a moderate stream. The faster population increases, the more help will be got to draw off the water, and consequently an increasing quantity will be taken every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Years, Land

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.301, Penguin UK

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• The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

  Mel Gibson

  Spiritual, Regret, Past

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• Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

  Mark Thomas

  Religion, Atheism, Different

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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, Movement, Chance

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• I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

  Francis Bacon

  Taken, Knowledge, Science

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.274

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• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

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• The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

  Dan Rather

  New York, Party, Voters

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• Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

  Emilio Estevez

  Lines, Conservative

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• The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

  Saadi

  Desire, Want, Remedy

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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• The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

  Jim Harrison

  Quitting, Reason

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Position, Extremes, Contrary

  "The Will to Power".

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• Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.

  Norm MacDonald

  Believe, Perfection, Grace

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wrath, People

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• When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

  Thomas Keller

  Style

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• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Action

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

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• It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Effort

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• If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Talent, Ability, Deficiency

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

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• The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Giving, Sincere, Prudence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

  Seneca the Younger

  And Love, Ends, Prudence

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• Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

  Epicurus

  Wine, Order, Joy

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• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Desire, Fleeting

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Evil, Islam

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