#excessive

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#any #disgraceful #drinking #excessive #habits

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively. ↗

— Toba Beta

#newly-at-freedom #attitude

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#body #books #bringing #country #enriching

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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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

#country #current #excessively #forms #instead

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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