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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. -- Woodrow Wilson
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance. -- Eric Hoffer
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth. -- J. B. Priestley
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. -- Richard Le Gallienne
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. -- Camille Paglia
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. -- George Will
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. -- Will Durant
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. -- Adam Smith
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. -- James Chanos
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. -- Augusto Pinochet
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
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do. -- Stephen Daldry
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 A. Baldwin
While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne. -- Mark Hyman
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
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. -- Susan Vreeland
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times. -- Mick Jagger
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself. -- Jay Griffiths
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. -- Paul Wellstone
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. -- Tom Shales
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
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on. -- Tony Visconti
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm. -- Gelsey Kirkland
The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more. -- Nouriel Roubini
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. -- Edward Snowden
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. -- Jim Hightower
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences. -- Christine Lagarde
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' -- James Chanos
Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses! -- Michael R. Burch
Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence. -- Thiruvalluvar
Reality is a creation of our excesses. -- Emile M. Cioran
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. -- Pleasant Rowland
True charity is liable to excesses and transports. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! -- Joseph Joubert
Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. -- Ian Gardner
Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. -- Chuck Schumer
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. -- Iain Banks
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses. -- Robert Reich
People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. -- Warren Buffett
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. -- Bernard Tschumi
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. -- Michel de Montaigne
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. -- Kate Zambreno
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. -- Sophie Swetchine
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. -- Alexander Hamilton
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. -- Lillian B. Rubin
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. -- Blaise Pascal
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. -- Rembrandt
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. -- Horace
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. -- Rosemary Verey
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. -- William E. Gladstone
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds. -- Greg Giraldo
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. -- David Korten
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. -- Marty Meehan
Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. -- Marilynne Robinson
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. -- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. -- Swami Vivekananda
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love. -- Eric Gamalinda
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another. -- Hippocrates
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with. -- Horace
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters. -- Richard Brookhiser
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws. -- Paul Laxalt
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected. -- Nouriel Roubini
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard! -- Jean de la Bruyere
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 A. Baldwin
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez. -- Joaquin Sorolla
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. -- Aristotle
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses -- Aristotle
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government. -- Alan Dershowitz
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! -- Jean de la Bruyere
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
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. -- John Cusack
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia. -- Bill Moyers
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. -- Walter Scott
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. -- Joel Miller
The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America. -- George W. Bush
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. -- Samuel Johnson
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now. -- Tadao Ando
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. -- Terry Pratchett
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street. -- Barack Obama

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