#excess

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#debt #excessive #national #national debt #us

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

#behalf #caution #certain #errors #excessive

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic #alcoholic beverages #any #beverages #deny

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #excessively #finest #painful #remedy

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#debilitating #delivery #either #excessive #health

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. ↗

— John Selden

#drinking #excess

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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