Excessive Quotes

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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. — Rick Perry
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. — Alexis de Tocqueville
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a… — Paul Tsongas
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which… — Josiah Warren
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. — Euripides
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your… — Erwin Rommel
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So… — Eric Weiner
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom — Louise Erdrich
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period… — Robert A. Heinlein
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a… — Ezra Pound
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… — Charles Baudelaire
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay… — Bruno Schulz
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to… — Oswald Chambers
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger… — ZoÃ« Heller
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.… — Joseph Campbell

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