Excessively Quotes
63 Excessively quotes by 55 unique authors
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By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the…
— John Green
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Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively…
— Paulo Freire
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
— Eric Hoffer
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There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.
— Mitt Romney
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Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
— David Mamet
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It…
— Unknown Author
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to…
— Richard Hofstadter
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If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,
— Craig Johnston
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
— Jean Anouilh
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When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because…
— Unknown Author
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After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my…
— William Henry Ashley
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Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
— Paul Cezanne
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The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.…
— Jimmy Carter
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
— Yann Martel
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The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May…
— H. Burke Peterson
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Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.
— Tim Vine
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Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition…
— B.F. Skinner
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The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
— Giorgio Napolitano
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
— China Mieville
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