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

~Bernard Tschumi

Topics: Crime Delights Excess Secretly Society Sort Violated

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You're in a mess, and in excess.

~Billy Strayhorn

Topics: Excess Mess You

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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

Topics: Ad Best Came Chance Could Excess Final Gave Knowing Lib Much Off Product Us Wanted

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Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

~Bob Beauprez

Topics: Easy Excess Good Good Thing Growth Increase Job Only Population Thing Very Well Were Would

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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

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

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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

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

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On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Dollars Entire Excess Him His Jordan June Just Made Michael Michael Jordan Mike Mike Tyson Million Million Dollars Money More Over Prime Pull Season Seconds Than Took Tyson Work Year

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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Because Destroyed Excess Generation Great Ideals Liberalism My Generation Our Sixties

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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Believe Burdened Bureaucracy Confine Down Excess Government Itself Possible Public Realm Reason Should Stripped Within I Believe I Believe That

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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: About Cent Excess Greed Idiot Make Margins Newspaper Obviously Out Per Profit Put Talking You

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