"The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command."
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"Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess."
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"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism."
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"Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty."
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"The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger."
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"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."
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"I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism."
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"In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view."
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"Reality is a creation of our excesses."
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"I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed"
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"Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity."
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"Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling."
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"People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses."
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"Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
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"The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness."
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"Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence."
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"We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this."
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"Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses."
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"Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?"
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"Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way."
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