Excess Quotes
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
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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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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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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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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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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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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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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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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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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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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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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and 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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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
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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.
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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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Crime is a product of social excess.
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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.
