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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them." »Hazlitt
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"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." »Groucho Marx
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"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme." »Roy Hattersley
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence" »The Young Ones
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"The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness." »Jean Cocteau
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"The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness." »Jean Cocteau
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"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil." »Mary Wollstonecraft
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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 Francis Kennedy
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"The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position." »Hubert Humphrey
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"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." »William Seward Burroughs
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"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick." »Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
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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
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"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change." »Marquis de Sade
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"Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others." »Marquis de Sade
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"It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" »Galileo Galilei
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"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being." »John Updike
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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 Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" »Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
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"Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health." »Gloria Steinem
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"Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust." »R. D. Hitchcock
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"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past." »Dean Koontz
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." »J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
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