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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
Author:
Rick Yune
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
Author:
William Yeats
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Author:
Francis Wright
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If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
Author:
Evan Wood
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Hockey is the original extreme sport.
Author:
Tom Ward
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In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
Author:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Author:
Terence
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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Author:
Tilda Swinton
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
Author:
William Sumner
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When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
Author:
David Stiers
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
Author:
Pete Stark
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First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
Author:
Jean Stapleton
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Author:
Robert Smith
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We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Author:
Arthur Sheekman
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Author:
George Shaw
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I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
Author:
Betty Shabazz
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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
Author:
Elihu Root
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I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.
Author:
John Romero
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I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
Author:
Bonnie Raitt
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Author:
Antonio Porchia
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Author:
Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Author:
Plato
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
Author:
Brad Pitt
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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
Author:
John Pilger
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
Author:
Chris Patten
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The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
Author:
John Olver
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Author:
Helmut Newton
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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Author:
Gabriele Nanni
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Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
Author:
John Mott
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Author:
Samuel Morton
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
Author:
Steven Morrissey
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Author:
Roger Moore
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We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.
Author:
Issey Miyake
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I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Author:
Roscoe Mitchell
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When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.
Author:
Joe Miller
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I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Author:
Frances McDormand
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For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
Author:
Ian McDiarmid
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
Author:
John McCarthy
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The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
Author:
Jane Mayer
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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
Author:
Robert Ludlum
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I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
Author:
Jeremy London
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I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
Author:
Alison Lohman
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I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
Author:
Arto Lindsay
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I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Author:
Geddy Lee
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I always go extreme ways.
Author:
Niki Lauda
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I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.
Author:
Chiaki Kuriyama
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I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
Author:
Satish Kumar
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In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.
Author:
Jonathan Krohn
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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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.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
Author:
Philip Kaufman
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That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Author:
Lawrence Kasdan
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
Author:
Hamilton Jordan
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Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.
Author:
John Hull
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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
Author:
John Hull
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Author:
Sam Houston
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
Author:
Steven Hill
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Author:
Aaron Hill
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Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Author:
Gustav Heinemann
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We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Author:
Roy Hattersley
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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Author:
Paul Harris
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
Author:
Ed Harris
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There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
Author:
Geri Halliwell
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
Author:
John Haldane
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Author:
Sammy Hagar
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Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready.
Author:
Seth Green
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I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.
Author:
Mike Gordon
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I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Author:
Tony Goldwyn
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One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
Author:
John Gibbon
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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Author:
Shakti Gawain
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I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
Author:
Mary Garden
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Author:
John Galbraith
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We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
Author:
Alberto Fujimori
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The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.
Author:
Henry Flynt
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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
Author:
Eugene Field
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Author:
Jim Fiebig
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Author:
Paul Farmer
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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
Author:
John Ensign
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
Author:
David Eddings
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I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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Extreme complication is contrary to art.
Author:
Claude Debussy
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
Author:
Taylor Dayne
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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
Author:
Francis Darwin
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
Author:
Edwidge Danticat
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I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
Author:
Beatrice Dalle
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When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
Author:
John Cusack
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
Author:
John Cusack
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I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
Author:
Joan Cusack
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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Author:
Shirley Chisholm
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You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
Author:
George Chapman
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No violent extreme endures.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Author:
Frank Capra
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I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
Author:
Sophia Bush
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As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Author:
Jim Bunning
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English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
Author:
Bernhard Bulow
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The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
Author:
John Buford
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Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
Author:
John Buford
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
Author:
Tammy Bruce
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
Author:
Breyten Breytenbach
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Author:
Bono
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Author:
Edward Bond
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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
Author:
Nuno Bettencourt
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
Author:
Rand Beers
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Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
Author:
Don Baylor
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
Author:
Billie Armstrong
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God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.
Author:
Kirstie Alley
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
Author:
Ayaan Ali
