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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I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
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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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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
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There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.
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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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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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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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Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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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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You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.
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Never order food in excess of your body weight.
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A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.
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For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.
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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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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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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
