Excess Quotes
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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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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.
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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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Excess weakens the spirits.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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When I stand on my special-issue "Intelligent Investor" ladder and peer out over the frenzied crowd, I see very few others doing the same. Many stocks remain overvalued, and speculative excess - both on the upside and on the downside - is embedded in the frenzy around stocks of all stripes. And yes, I am talking about March 2001, not March 2000.
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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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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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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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The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
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Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.
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You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
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The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.
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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.
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In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.
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Never order food in excess of your body weight.
