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en When I was growing up, I gravitated from one extreme to the other. I didn't know a middle ground.

en It's a typical Catch-22 situation. There is often no middle ground to work on and what Ford is trying to do is find that middle ground.

en I was thinking double play since I came from the bullpen, ... Facing a guy like Derrek Lee, I was looking for the ground ball, but I wasn't looking for that ground ball up the middle. To me, when that ball went by me, I thought it was a single up the middle.

en His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her. The middle ground gets lost. Anybody who talks about a sensible middle ground gets devoured by the extremes on both sides. It's either immigration is a plague, or wide-open, unhindered immigration and wide-scale amnesty is the answer.

en We didn't get the low strike called early and we kind of live off that in trying to get ground balls. They got some hits. They're a good baseball team. We didn't have any intensity through the middle part of the game and never got anything going offensively.

en The problem all these magazines have is that they get lost in the middle. If you're really spiritual and religious, you want the full dose. If not, you want the other extreme. Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.

en A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.
  Senator John Kerry

en Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
  George Chapman

en Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
  George Chapman

en People at the upper end of the income distribution have done very well and continue to do well. People in the middle are growing, but they're not growing all that much. Wage increases have been muted and that certainly affects people in the middle and at the bottom. Add in rising energy costs and those people are really being constrained right at the moment in their ability to go out and purchase items and that's certainly affecting the sales tax.

en I had no idea why, but all of a sudden I wanted to sing, ... And I loved it. I didn't have a choice. I just gravitated toward it.

en My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

en If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, ... The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

en This is the fastest growing county in the state. But 80 percent of the land is undeveloped. We saw a farmhouse in the middle of the suburb area, and the kids really enjoyed seeing a stoplight in the middle of nowhere.

en Obviously, the Council had their concerns, and obviously, we didn't just want to invalidate the concerns of the community. So we took that information to heart, and I think we've got a great kind of middle ground now.


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