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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess Quotes
When more stops being better.
Excess quotes weigh the thrill of indulgence against its costs, sometimes praising it as a break from habit. Others link excess to social problems, treating it as a symptom rather than a virtue worth chasing.
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- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime is a product of social excess.
- College Campuses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
- Halfway
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
- Interaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
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- Nov 07, 2020