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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
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.
A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.
It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.
It's problematic when we have excessive numbers of police taking over the streets. People visiting Seoul for the first time might think... this is a military state.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.
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.
Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out across the board.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.
The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
By promising to intervene in vulnerable markets in the event of excessive financial volatility, the IMF, as the largest player, would reduce coordination problems among investors.
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
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.
there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
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.
Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.
