#excessive

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I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.


Robert M. Parker, Jr.


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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


#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

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


Plato


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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.


Edgar Allan Poe


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For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.


Mariano Rajoy


#circumstances #country #critical #debt #deficit

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

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


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