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“One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!”

Desire One Thing Periods Extremes Futurist

Author:Lea Thompson

“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.”

Inspirational Desire Taken Buddhism Extremes Fulfillment Cynical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”

Art Desire Strong Habit Art Is Delight Extremes Denial Very Strong Tobacco Smokers Fruition Malaise

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”

Eye Running Desire Dark Imagine Week Color Baby Mouths Universal Election Size Extremes Wide Rage Presidential Voting Live By Covered Sweat Potatoes Mute Presidential Election Infantile Hippo

Book:Idoru

Source: Idoru

“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”

“The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.”

Two Government Desire Liberty Our Lives Republican Democrat Leaving Extremes Libertarian Favors Rejects Two Extremes Control Of Your Life

Author:Michael Badnarik

“Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.”

Mean Two Lying Desire Asks Easy Extremes Torture Dislike Maids Two Extremes

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.”

Ifs Happens Desire Given Pleasure Events Circumstances Extremes Anticipation

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.”

Ends Desire Hate Calm Extremes Flood Tempest Hottest

Author:Socrates

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”

Feels May Desire Mankind Kings Mass Extremes Length Beggar Ardent

Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.”

Desire Suffering Wish Power Mere Extremes Vain Insecurity Arrogant Insomnia Ruthless Mammals

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.”

People Wells Desire Fall Evil Speak Danger Approach Vices Extremes Sensitive Slander

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.”

Running Desire Nations Concern Extremes

Book:Possible Worlds

Source: Possible Worlds