"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

Arendt, Hannah on Excess
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"Riches are for spending."

Bacon, Francis on Excess
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"Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah on Excess
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"We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate."

Baudrillard, Jean on Excess
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"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Blake, William on Excess
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

Butler, Samuel on Excess
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on Excess
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Excess
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"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

Plato on Excess
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"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties."

Sontag, Susan on Excess
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"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."

Terence on Excess
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"Nothing in excess."

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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

Will, George F. on Excess
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