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Tag Name "Excess" (425)

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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Excess makes the heart grow fonder.
John Balance
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
Marianne Moore
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
Ouida
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Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.
Eric Hoffer
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Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
C. S. Lewis
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.
Confucius
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
Woodrow Wilson
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
William Penn
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Zoroaster
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Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.
Tim DeChristopher
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing especially when you are talking about living.
Oscar de la Renta
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
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Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.
Seth Klarman
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
Freddie Mercury
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Will Durant
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
Tom Shales
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What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.
William Batchelder Greene
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We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.
Ugo Cavallero
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
William E. Gladstone
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