"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
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"All extremes of feeling are allied to madness."
"To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal."
"Extreme justice is often injustice."
"That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!"
"Speak in extremes, it'll save you time."
"All extremes are dangerous."
"The young are always in extremes."
"There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice."
"The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork."
"The best things are placed between extremes."
"I trust that absolutes have gradations."
"Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty."
"Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals."
"Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing."
"In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve."
"Happiness is the relief after extreme tension"
"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
"extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery."
"Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them."
"Extremity is the trier of spirits."