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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

  Calvin Trillin

  Jewish Tradition, Giving, Vampire

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

  Euripides

  Praise, Disgusting, Feels

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

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• Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

  James Chanos

  Credit, Bigger, China

  "The Long And Short Of Treasury Bond Yields". The Daily Reckoning, www.businessinsider.com. Novemebr 29, 2010.

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• O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament which You left to us on the eve of Your Passion, as the testimony of the excess of Your love!

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Passion, Feet

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• The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.

  Isidore of Seville

  Health, Names, Medicine

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• I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Thinking, Years, Hysteria

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• It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Levels, Unjust

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

  Elbridge Gerry

  America, People, Evil

  Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.

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• To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Errors, Names, Abuse

  Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Ḥalimī (1962). “Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion”, Andre Deutsch

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• Reality is a creation of our excesses.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Creation

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

  Mo Rocca

  Christmas, Stars, Shopping

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

  Agatha Christie

  Sympathy, Drunk, Judging

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Relationship, Country, Husband

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

  Ralph Blum

  Acceptance, Self, Balance

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• A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

  Plato

  Laughter, Plato, Fit

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.271, Xist Publishing

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• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

  Plato

  Greed, Democracy, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

  Steve Blake

  Reality, Influence, Figures

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• But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Individualism, Human Nature

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.197, Hackett Publishing

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• If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

  Simon Sinek

  Mean, People, Greed

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.54, Penguin

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• In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.

  David Easton

  Animal, Thinking, Air

  David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns 12%, but all the excess cash must be reinvested - there's never any cash. It reminds me of the guy who looks at all of his equipment and says, 'There's all of my profit.' We hate that kind of business.

  Charlie Munger

  Hate, Years, Two

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• Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

  David Platt

  Ideas, Giving, Why Not

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.123, Multnomah

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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

  David Mamet

  Doe, Income, Financial

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.8, Penguin

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• Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Like You, Feeding

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