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Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

James C. Dobson (2010). “Love Must Be Tough: New Hope for Marriages in Crisis”, p.203, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

The young are always in extremes.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

"The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

The best things are placed between extremes.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

"The ‘Broccoli Horrible’: Obama Loses The Broccoli Battle, But Wins The War", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

"French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.