Top Excessive Quotes
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
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
J. William Fulbright
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Francesca Annis
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
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton 
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
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Barney FrankGro Harlem BrundtlandJ. William FulbrightJohn Maynard KeynesJim RyunAlexander HamiltonWendell WillkieFredrik BajerPaul TsongasRoland BarthesJohn ShadeggCatherine Helen SpenceTheodore ParkerSean HannityThomas Kretschmann
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