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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.

  Jane Mayer

  Military, Thinking, Abuse

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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.

  Robert Byrd

  Father, Fate, Bitterness

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• People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

  Richard Thompson

  Romantic, Nature, People

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• Las pequeñas cosas son lo eterno, y el resto, todo el resto, es brevedad, extrema brevedad.

  Antonio Porchia

  Infancy Is, Brevity, Eternal

  "Voces". Libro de Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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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.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Trying, Berries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sea, Rivers, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Too Much, Faults

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.355

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• Tan sobre violento, o sobre civil que cada hombre con él era Dios o Diablo.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

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• I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

  Robert Frost

  Conservative, Young, Radical

  "Precaution" l. 1 (1936)

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• Parece que sigo volviendo a mi padre en los poemas porque su personalidad era tan extrema, tan impulsiva. Lo hacía todo en exceso.

  Robert Morgan

  Father, Personality, Excess

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• Se trata de levantar a los niños y darles de comer, llevar a uno al colegio, acostar al otro para la siesta, ir al supermercado, recoger a uno del colegio, acostar al otro para otra siesta, preparar la cena... Vivo mi vida en estos dos extremos. O soy ama de casa a tiempo completo o actriz a tiempo completo.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mamá, Niños, Hogar

  "8 veces en las que Jennifer Garner fue todas nosotras cuando habló de la maternidad" por Allison Slater Tate, www.today.com. 4 de noviembre de 2016.

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• El terrorismo global es extremo tanto por su falta de objetivos realistas como por su cínica explotación de la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas complejos.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Alex, Silent

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Geddy Lee

  Attitude, Responsibility, Swings

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• Me encantan los deportes extremos, el snowboard, el motocross, el patinaje y el hockey.

  Jeremy London

  Sports, Hockey, Snowboarding

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• Me gustaría recuperar esa frescura de miras propia de la extrema juventud, cuando todo el mundo es nuevo para ella.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Vision, World

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

  Roger Moore

  Frustrated, Poverty, Violence

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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.

  Steven Morrissey

  Communication, People, Inconvenience

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• El lenguaje es extraordinario, excepto bajo las restricciones extremas de las matemáticas y la lógica, nunca puede hablar sólo de lo que se supone que debe hablar, sino que siempre se está extendiendo.

  Howard Nemerov

  Sensual, Logic, Language

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• A las posturas extremas no les suceden posturas moderadas, sino posturas extremas de signo contrario.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Position, Contrary, Moderates

  "La voluntad de poder".

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• Los extremos en la naturaleza producen fines iguales; En el hombre se unen para algún uso misterioso.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Men, Use

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

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• Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

  Robert W. Servicio

  Winning, Saving, Easy

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• El asesinato es la forma extrema de censura.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Witty, Government

  The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet preface (1911)

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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