The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness!… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.… — Allen Hershkowitz Copy Share Image
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons Copy Share Image
Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult:… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently].… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Whether you are checking luggage or bringing a carry-on, always weigh and measure your bags to make sure they are below the… — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
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