145 Quotes About Excess


  • Author Peter Doyle
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    There was a lot of speculative excess that had to be shaken out of the market. And I think that's what we're seeing here today.

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  • Author Juan Enriquez
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    We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

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  • Author William Hazlitt
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    An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.

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  • Author Gareth Jones
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    I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

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