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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

  Li Keqiang

  Law, Matter, Boundaries

  "China's new premier, Li Keqiang, vows to tackle bureaucracy and corruption" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

  Adelard of Bath

  Men, Degrees, Flight

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rights, Unlimited

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.595, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Two, Wife

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

  Mason Cooley

  Vices, Fancy, Youth

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• The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Liberty, Facts

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.325, Princeton University Press

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• Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

  Benjamin Graham

  Commitment, Loss, Numbers

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• Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Limits, Indifferent, Misfortunes

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• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  William Blackstone

  Fall, Gambling, May

  Sir William Blackstone (1841). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work”

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• I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have given you up, and I will help you. In a little wrath I struck you, but with everlasting mercy I will glorify you (cf. Isa. 54:8). The measure of His kindness exceeds the measure of His discipline.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kindness, Voice

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• Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Numbers, Evil

  "Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics".

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• Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

  Edgar Wright

  Ideas, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

  Francis Quarles

  Design, Balance, Genius

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• They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

  Hesiod

  Half, Fool, Know How

  Hesiod (2015). “Theogony”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Passion, Vices

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.43, Aeterna Press

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• The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

  Warren Buffett

  Self, People, Important

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• For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

  Robert Greene

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.282

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• Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Successful, Opportunity, Two

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• At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Ocean, Men

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• Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

  Joe Maddon

  Pressure, Pleasure

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• If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

  Robert Haugen

  Average, Fund, Performances

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 6, Counterattack-The First Wave, p. 63, 1999.

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