Excess Quotes
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
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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.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
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I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
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Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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For our excess we lost everything.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
