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Living in Abundance When we view the world as a whole it becomes apparent that there are pockets of wealth and vastness of not so much. Extremes exist in having and not. The majority of us exist in the central range of life's pendulum. There are those among us that feel their sum of stuff equals the value of themselves. Research has shone that should the abundance of the world be spread liken icing on a cake, there would be a whole bunch less hunger and pain. Some among us see our basic needs of food, clothing, shelter as a given...while others long for just that. Could be a good thing to share.... Know yer Loved, CWD – Carl DeHaven	added by Carl DeHaven618 9 years ago
We have to have a third way, all the foreign policy discussion in the U.S. is centered around the two extremes. The neocons on one side that want to be militarily engaged very quickly and every often. Then you have the neo-isolationists on the other side (who want to) pull back and not intervene. – Jim Gilmore	Found on CNN 9 years ago
They really went to extremes, but they still couldn't decontaminate the scope, and they finally had to just destroy it. – John Allen	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's a strategy to try and upset the people and turn them to extremes, to destabilize the country, but the people are defeating it in the street, and the government is working in the street. – President Nicolas Maduro	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.” – Aberjhani	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. – Antoine de Rivarol	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than men. – La Bruy?re	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. – Graham Clarke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret. – Barry Lopez	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. – Charles Dudley Warner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar. – David Assael	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. – Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Living in Abundance When we view the world as a whole it becomes apparent that there are pockets of wealth and vastness of not so much. Extremes exist in having and not. The majority of us exist in the central range of life's pendulum. There are those among us that feel their sum of stuff equals the value of themselves. Research has shone that should the abundance of the world be spread liken icing on a cake, there would be a whole bunch less hunger and pain. Some among us see our basic needs of food, clothing, shelter as a given...while others long for just that. Could be a good thing to share.... Know yer Loved, CWD

– Carl DeHaven

added by Carl DeHaven618
9 years ago

We have to have a third way, all the foreign policy discussion in the U.S. is centered around the two extremes. The neocons on one side that want to be militarily engaged very quickly and every often. Then you have the neo-isolationists on the other side (who want to) pull back and not intervene.

– Jim Gilmore

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They really went to extremes, but they still couldn't decontaminate the scope, and they finally had to just destroy it.

– John Allen

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's a strategy to try and upset the people and turn them to extremes, to destabilize the country, but the people are defeating it in the street, and the government is working in the street.

– President Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.”

– Aberjhani

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

– Antoine de Rivarol

added by anonymous
10 years ago

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

– La Bruy?re

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

– Graham Clarke

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

– Barry Lopez

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

– Charles Dudley Warner

added by anonymous
13 years ago

After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.

– David Assael

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

– Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

– George Eliot

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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