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The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much — Mel Gibson

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots. — Barney Frank

Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals. — Roger Ross Williams

Sometimes that's just the way it is. You never really know until you try something on. The thing is," she said, with a new, more moderate conviction — Alice Munro

light and bake in a moderate oven. OLD VIRGINIA — Carrie V. Shuman

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. — Edward Abbey

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained. — Jonathan Franzen

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive . — Mitt Romney

I need to cool off, I tell him, trying to moderate my voice. I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping. — Tahereh Mafi

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. — Baruch Spinoza

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. — Bill Maher

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. — Mary Shelley

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. — Thomas Mann

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. — Samuel Butler

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage. — Douglas Leone

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. — Gijs De Vries

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. — Mark McKinnon

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. — George Bernard Shaw

Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate. — Brian Sandoval

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression. — Andrew Weil

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more. — Richard Neal

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. — Auguste Piccard

Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam. — Geraldo Rivera

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise. — Michael Greger

The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed. — George Washington

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases. — William Harvey

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. — Gautama Buddha

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. — Baron De Montesquieu

It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. — George W. Bush

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest. — Junius

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I realized that moderate amounts of stress, when directed or funneled in specific directions, could be both beneficial and practical. — Gudjon Bergmann

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. — Kim Dae-jung

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition. — Nelson DeMille

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican. — Elon Musk

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. — Emilio Estevez

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions. — C. G. Jung

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate! — Jane Austen

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they? — Napoleon Bonaparte

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. — Mario Cuomo

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives ... — James Salter

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life. — Russell Brand

I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive. — Dan Maffei

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. — Noam Chomsky

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time. — Samuel Smiles

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay

[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate. — Aristotle.

These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. — Ann Coulter

The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it? — Dan Rather

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. — Plato

Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust. — Baruch Spinoza

That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. — William Herschel

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. — Xun Zi

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. — Saadi

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus

I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me. — Mel Gibson

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up ... — Confucius

...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree. — Maria Gentile

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist. — Stephen Colbert

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled. — Ellen G. White

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. — Robert C. Solomon

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate. — Bobby Jindal

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it. — Benjamin Whichcote

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. — Colin Powell

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. — Michel De Montaigne

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. — Gijs De Vries

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. — Francois Fenelon

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit. — Jim Harrison

I thought the best way to topple Assad was not through airstrikes, but through equipping the moderate rebel elements. — Marco Rubio

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back. — Abraham Lincoln

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. — Juvenal

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam. — Najib Razak

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could. — John Bartholomew Gough

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides. — Edward Gibbon

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim. — Marco Polo

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side. — Barton Gellman

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist. — H.W. Brands

It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities. — Allan Jacobs

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment. — John Stuart Mill

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. — Hesiod

Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Biden said that in Syria the US had found that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers. — Patrick Cockburn

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family. — Lori Copeland

It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction. — Plautus

I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life — Gustave Flaubert

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus

After the Islamic State, even al-Qaeda appears 'moderate'. — Maajid Nawaz