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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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