Extremes Quotes

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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of… — Jeffrey Sachs
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion… — Aristotle
It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red… — Angelina Jolie
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion… — Fritjof Capra
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related… — Swami Vivekananda
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. — Homer
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. — Aaron Hill
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. — Mark Van Doren
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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