“ Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ My vanity is excessive: wherever I sit is the head of the table. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts. ”
- Ernest A. Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”
- Beverly Sills- Copy
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“ 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 F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. ”
- Charles Dudley Warner- Copy
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“ Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. ”
- Graham Clarke- Copy
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“ The extreme limit of wisdom — that is what the public calls madness. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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