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• The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Preparation, Weight

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.15, Modern Library

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• If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Workout, Book, Reading

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• Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

  Doug Stanhope

  Beer, Waiting, Months

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• Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Golden, Enjoyment, Restraint

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.231

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• The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Pleasure, Disposition, Know How

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.

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• Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Senior, Christian, Religious

  "The US needs a new soft era" by Ahmed H. Zewail, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2010.

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• I believe that everything in moderation is best.

  Miranda Kerr

  Believe, I Believe, Everything In Moderation

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Littles, Flow, Streams

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• Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Beer, Everything In Moderation

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• Here's to responsibility, twice a week.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Responsibility, Week

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• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Ruins, Gains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Real, Struggle

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• I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  World, Boring, Middle

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• Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

  Luce Irigaray

  Sex, Taken, Leaving

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• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Mean, Simple, Doe

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• there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old!

  Trevor Beattie

  Mph, Years, Car

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• So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Fitness, Balance, Concepts

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• Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Coward, Anything Worth Doing

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Animal, Sloth

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• Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Needs, Answers, Controlled

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

  Mark Twain

  Discrete, Ifs

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• When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Teaching, Science

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• Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Taken, Men, Decision

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

  Robert E. Lee

  Alcohol, Civil War, Moral

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Evil, Flaws

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse”, p.217, Penguin UK

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