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Excess Quotes - Page 13

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

"What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.15, Simon and Schuster