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As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies. -- Ralph Hall
Excessive fear is always powerless. -- Aeschylus
Excessive love in loathing ever ends. -- Ovid
Excessive severity misses its own aim. -- Publilius Syrus
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. -- William Blake
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological -- Arthur C. Clarke
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal. -- Alan Greenspan
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism. -- Stefan Molyneux
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. -- T. Colin Campbell
Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good. -- Mardy Grothe
Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm. -- Donald Griffin
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. -- Demosthenes
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. -- John McCain
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. -- Zoroaster
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. -- Augustus William Hare
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software -- Capers Jones
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election. -- Thomas Jefferson
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace. -- Pope Paul VI
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife -- Confucius
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them. -- John Patrick Hickey
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. -- Swami Vivekananda
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. -- Luc de Clapiers
Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it. -- Ernie Els
I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter. -- Alexei Maxim Russell
Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love. -- Paulo Coelho
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Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory. -- Marcie Leeper
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time. -- Alan Greenspan
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?' -- Barry Ritholtz
Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest. -- Charles Walter Simpson
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other. -- Swami Vivekananda
Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it. -- Barney Frank
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. -- Eric Hoffer
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow. -- Lester R. Brown
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. -- Antisthenes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. -- Plato
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. -- Hayao Miyazaki
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. -- Francis Bacon
My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be. -- Mel Gibson
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive. -- Thomas Piketty
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks. -- Janet Yellen
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
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
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
Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. -- Aldous Huxley
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers. -- Andy Behrman
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
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good. -- Tom Rath
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. -- Benjamin Graham
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
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. -- Josiah Warren
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous. -- David Suzuki
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern. -- James McGreevey
Dark with excessive bright. -- John Milton
Ask the gods nothing excessive. -- Aeschylus
Do not practise excessive humility. -- John Todd
Good taste rejects excessive nicety. -- Francois Fenelon
I think it's a bit excessive. -- Stephen Reinhardt
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. -- Charlie Munger
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility. -- Barbara Mertz
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. -- Charles Caleb Colton
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. -- Bill Vaughan
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave. -- Leigh Hunt
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. -- Euripides
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart -- Robert Holden
Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive. -- Dean Koontz
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. -- Vittorio Alfieri
...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom -- Louise Erdrich
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. -- Mark Twain
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ. -- Henry Allen Ironside
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. -- Andre Gide
The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption. -- Yehuda Levi
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness. -- Paul Haggis
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive -- Antisthenes
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair. -- Thomas Aquinas
excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. -- Robert Kiyosaki
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. -- John McCarthy
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. -- Jean de la Bruyere
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. -- Gil Fronsdal
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. -- George Eliot
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. -- Lancelot Hogben
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. -- Tacitus
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. -- Francesca Annis
There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. -- Gaston Leroux
In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities. -- Noel DeJesus
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people. -- Michael Spencer
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. -- John Milton
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. -- Steve Martin
I can't go more than 72 hours without shopping, but I don't think I'm excessive. -- Hilary Duff
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. -- Walter Savage Landor
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. -- Blaise Pascal
I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive. -- Stacy Keibler
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. -- Karl Abraham
Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices. -- Vladimir Putin
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. -- Lew Wallace
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. -- Rick Perry
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. -- Albert Einstein
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. -- Catherine Helen Spence
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. -- Wole Soyinka
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. -- Plato
But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! -- Woody Allen
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse. -- Franz Grillparzer
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away. -- Margaret Atwood
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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