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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. Irvine Welsh

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects. Jean Piaget

Assurance Extreme Striking Finds About Most His Subjects Child Things

Justice in the extreme is often unjust. Jean Racine

Justice Unjust Extreme Often

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization. Joss Whedon

Organization Focus Secret Extreme Just Multitasking Actually

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression. Lysander Spooner

Government People Oppression Will Stronger Nothing Else Our Extreme Systems Would Would-Be Plunder Cases Governments Than Little Organized Resist

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. Margaret Atwood

Family Money Own Monster Unless Everything Extreme Kind Would Only Absolute Price Put Most Within Person Measure Things

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away. Mark Goulston

You Feeling Go Away Past Extreme Following Retrospect Vulnerability Understand How Occurs Causes Go Survived Get Trauma Away Awful

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England. Marquis de Lafayette

Great Character Women Simplicity Extreme Everywhere Pretty More Delightful Cleanliness Attended Truly Women Are Very Than American England American Women Appearance Even Neatness Here

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. Martha Stewart

Fly Style Extreme Later Complexities Out Andre High Magnificent Laying He Hill Terrain Him Versailles Accuracy Did Precision Helicopter Landscape Stand Hard Show Exquisite Designs Imagine

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry. Meghan Daum

Political Face Every Extreme Intolerance Correctness Born Comprehend Students Share Political Correctness Campus Same Quite Often Who

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver! Morihei Ueshiba

Heart Mind Unity Universe Waver Our Extreme Foe Critical Entire Becomes Times Essential Situations Your Technique

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences. Noreena Hertz

Capitalism Problems Focus Thinking Consequences Extreme Pendulum About Direction No-One Term Very Short Where Form Short-Term Far Swung

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. Paul Farmer

Health You Care Poverty National Extreme Extreme Poverty Promise See Sharp Health Care Health Insurance Limitations Insurance Where Regardless Anywhere Social Standing

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time. Pema Chodron

Time News Fly Long Long Time Rage Our Extreme Seeing Something Habit Emotional Particular Reaction Equally Because Cultivating Been Hearing Very Very Long Time Person Get Certain Now Right

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. Robert Byrd

People Speak Liberty Disagree Citizen Duty Extreme Say Out Misguided Underfoot Protect Partisanship Left American Trampled Happening American People Vigilant Awaken Lest Each Right

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. Salvador Dali

Remember Revolution Extreme Must Always Chinese Right Peasant

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments. Sushant Singh Rajput

Buy Day Every Day Money College Seen First Single Nothing Engineering Living Every Seven Extreme Those Prestigious Out Eating Having Kitchen Factors Dropping Because Without Boy Cherish Were Account Hands Bank Bank Account Bike Lows Moments Mumbai

Extreme law is often extreme injustice. Terence

Injustice Law Extreme Often

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. Noam Chomsky

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