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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.


Francis Bacon


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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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Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.


Shirley MacLaine


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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.


Theodore Parker


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In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.


Criss Jami


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The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.


Giorgio Napolitano


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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.


Plato


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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.


Plato


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


Alexander Hamilton


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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


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