#excesses

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ↗

— David Korten

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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. ↗

— Marty Meehan

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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

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