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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. - Confucius

To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

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