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Tag Name "Excessive" (236)

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
Alan Greenspan
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
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Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
Swami Vivekananda
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Luc de Clapiers
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Excessive severity misses its own aim.
Publilius Syrus
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Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
John McCain
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Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.
Donald Trump
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
Confucius
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Arthur C. Clarke
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
Augustus William Hare
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
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Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.
Charles Walter Simpson
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Zoroaster
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
Thomas Jefferson
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Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
Pope Paul VI
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Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.
Mardy Grothe
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes
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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.
Dalai Lama
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The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.
Arnold Kling
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The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
David Hume
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.
Arundhati Roy
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What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their excessive lifestyle.
David Letterman
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A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
B. F. Skinner
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