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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.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
Open yourself to extreme, excessive, extravagant grace.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.
Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.
I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.
Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.
Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.
Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.
A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.
Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.
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.
The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.
Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.
Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
