Excess

(191 votes)   Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(170 votes)   Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(133 votes)   Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(111 votes)   We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(105 votes)   Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''

Tallulah Bankhead
1903-1968, American Actress

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(82 votes)   Nothing in excess.

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