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No violent
extreme endures.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
The purest ore
is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest
thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
This woman did
not fly to extremes; she lived there.
-- Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author
Railing and
praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment
in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone
to him was either god or devil.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
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So over
violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or
Devil.
-- John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet,
Dramatist, Critic
Nothing fools
people as much as extreme passion.
-- Bishop Hall
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 F. Kennedy
1925-1968, American Attorney
General, Senator
The question
is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of
extremists we will be.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black
Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
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