“ Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. ”
- Sonny Perdue- Copy
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“ I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. ”
- Leon Jaworski- Copy
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“ They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
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“ It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o' clock and the Conservatives at eight. ”
- Gabriel García Márquez- Copy
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“ I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ”
- Anita Roddick- Copy
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“ This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades,... There was no reason for him to choose anyone but one of these outstanding conservatives. ”
- David Frum- Copy
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“ When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair. ”
- Brian Clough- Copy
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“ Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
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“ If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. ”
- Schola Salern- Copy
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“ If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ”
- Sir Joshua Reynolds- Copy
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“ I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime. ”
- Henry Holt- Copy
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