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• We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  Jonathan Sacks

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  Tags in Excess, Existence

• Less is more.

  Robert Browning

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• You’re in a mess, and in excess.

  Billy Strayhorn

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• I’m not intensely private – I talk a great deal about my life and my work – I just don’t play the game to excess.

  Annie Lennox

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  Tags in Game, Excess

• There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

  Roger Goodell

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  Tags in Bankruptcy, Excess

• The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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  Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  Charles Dickens

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• Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

  Christopher Marlowe

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• It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

  Will Oldham

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  Tags in Complicity, Rewarding, Excess

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  Xenophon

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Injury, Excess, Madness, Living

• This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

  Terence

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• Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

  Will Durant

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• Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

  Phaedrus

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• OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a year ago.

  A. F. Alhajji

  Tags in Excess, Opec

• For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

  Aeschylus

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Defense, Excess

• Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?

  Charlie Sheen

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• There is moderation even in excess.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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