#excess

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

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I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need. ↗

— Heather Graham

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One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. ↗

— Sean Hannity

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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ↗

— Hippocrates

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I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

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