"Happiness is the relief after extreme tension"
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"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
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"extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery."
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"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."
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"Extremity is the trier of spirits."
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"Keep a mid course between two extremes."
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"A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere."
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"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."
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"Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness."
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"I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports."
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"There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other."
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"Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing."
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"In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives."
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"Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly."
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"I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme."
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"Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to."
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"One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!"
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"The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful."
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"Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty."
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