There are situations that seem to be opposites and highly unprobable, yet when they meet they produce something unique and wonderful.



The closest human bonds are formed in the hardest circumstances. During childbirth or in a battlefield.  Best friends are not formed on a beach.  Love is created in hardships.

The coldest time of the day is slightly after dawn. Not in the middle of night

A persons life is appreciated most when it is being lost. In those last few precious painful moments. Why not when the "good times" are with us ?

The best leaders lead by taking everyone elses wants ahead of their own.
They lead by putting themselves last. A leader leads by putting everyone else first.
Leades that put themselves first are despots.

The greatest movements are started by a single person.  
More people will follow a single person than a group.

Givers have a fuller life. To empty ones heart is to gain a life.  

Iron is heated red hot, then plunged in water. The result is a stronger iron than before.
Combining heat and cold gives the best result.

Politically I have been told, when the far left and far right go to extremes, they touch and become the same. I have never understood this.

In Shakespeares play "King Lear", the old King dies when his heart “burst smilingly”.
Such inexplicable oppposites, yet I can imagine it happening.

Men and women are opposites.  :-)

With the extremes coming together, I think it refers to extremists wanting no government control because they don't trust the government. Hippies wanting everyone to live in the woods and leave people in peace, free market radicalists wanting the government to let people buy whatever they want with their money. There are also examples of the extreme left and right wanting total government control - eg communists and national socialists (nazis). I think what it really is, is that at the extremes you tend to get polarisation along statist/libertarian lines rather than traditional left/right lines. You get statists from what at first glance appear to be left and right wing groups. Same with libertarians. Remember that quiz a while back that plotted your political leanings on a 2D graph? It's on some of the member home pages, including mine.