Excess Quotes
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
William Shakespeare
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I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
Sam Palladio
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Yaroslav Trofimov
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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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.
Aaron Siskind
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
Blaise Pascal
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
Plato
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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?
Lao Tzu
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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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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
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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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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
Andrew Cuomo
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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.
Kate O'Beirne
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When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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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.
Chris Avery
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
Anna Dello Russo
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
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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.
Jack Gilbert
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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.
Barack Obama
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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For our excess we lost everything.
Andre Dubus
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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.
Randy Alcorn