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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Angels Caused Desire Excessive Fall Knowledge Men Power

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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

~Fredrik Bajer

Topics: Dealing Detail Discuss End Excessive Important Less Most No Time Often Peace Problems Questions Some Start The Most Important Time

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I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

~G-Dragon

Topics: Being Come Excessive Making Music Realize Ways Without

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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Autumn Bankruptcy Burning Cash Excessive Hype Leaves Like Stuff

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Excessive literary production is a social offense.

~George Eliot

Topics: Excessive Literary Offense Production Social

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

~George Eliot

Topics: Conviction Excessive Literary Offence Production Social

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'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

~George Lois

Topics: Behavior Characters Consumers Consumption Convince Early Every Excessive Fulfillment Glamorous Lucky Mad Mad Men Men Morally More Nicely Nothing Possible Repugnant Sort Stereotype Strikes Than Up Vintage 1960S

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