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We pay when old for the excesses of youth. J. B. Priestley

Age Youth Old Pay Excess

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. John Henry Newman

Corruption Evil Own Only Excess Substance Which Perversion Defect

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies. Linda Colley

Old Power Past Roman Empire Britons Benign Rested About Rather Excess Empire Armies French Catholic Because Builders Trade Were Than Roman Different In The Past Spanish Themselves Convinced Sea

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. Norman Lear

Country Constant Per Excess Repetition Violence

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. Peter Utley

Cries Out Scandal Excess Never Use Search

Excess is success. Roberto Cavalli

Success Excess

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. Terence

Life Valuable Consider Excess Principle Thing

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation. Tom Brokaw

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone. Adam Cohen

Gone Worst Excess Era Dot-Com

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart

Minds Mute Poetry Excess Advanced Arithmetic Like Bourgeois Piercing Around Overly Go Personal Avant-Garde Decorative Technical Imagined

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. Andrew Weil

Food Blame Culture Our Must Some Bear Pounds Excess Lifestyles Clearly Likely Well Contribute America Dysfunctional

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Quality Pressure Spider Lose Every Incredible Air Thread Threads Direction Small Excess Part Soon Without Conclude Fix May Whence Anything Cannot Place Which Body Exposed Found Now Number

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative. August Krogh

Positive Negative Pressure Way Everywhere Easily Must Atmospheric Give Excess Generally Practically Because Always Very Any Whether Nearly

I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage. Barbara Palvin

Garden People Hungary Out Would More Excess Countryside California Fresh Makeup Making Still Doing Lot Up Quicker Than Different Grow Grow Up Strawberries Tomatoes Things Start Here Sausage

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor. Barry Ritholtz

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong. Barry Ritholtz

You Will Mistakes Okay Stay Risk Excess Investing Wrong Involves Occasionally Although Making Any Being Means

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. Ben Bernanke

Depression People Made Back Saw Worse Out Morality Puritan Excess Get Squeeze Just Thing Things Necessary Chance

There is moderation even in excess. Benjamin Disraeli

Excess Moderation Even

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. Bernard Tschumi

Crime Society Secretly Delights Excess Sort Violated

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. Bing Crosby

Best Lib Gave Final Sliced Could Excess Knowing Dub Came Off Wanted Us Much Product Ad Chance

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher. Bob Beauprez

Health Benefits Research Enjoy Sector Pension Total Some Percent Economic Higher Excess Private Coverage Private Sector Workers Premium Comparable Shown Level Compensation Receive Careful

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year. Brian Skerry

Great Sharks Year Own White Waters Our More Excess Shark Abundance Concentrated Globe Because Around Island Becoming Least Been Stocks Cape Fortunate Seals Each Growing Multiplying Each Year Million Numbers

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