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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
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excess
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Hunter S. Thompson |
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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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amusement
excess
entertainment
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John Piper |
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Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
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greed
gain
insatiability
possessions
excess
entitlement
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William Shakespeare |
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God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)
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money
spoil
less
spending
more
excess
stewardship
giving
sharing
generosity
selfishness
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Randy Alcorn |
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Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
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non-recriprocation
squandering
the-accursed-share
the-gift
excess
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Georges Bataille |
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Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
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bonus
raise
standard-of-living
christianity
god
corinthians
increase
excess
stewardship
giving
income
sharing
scripture
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Randy Alcorn |
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"...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)"
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wisdom
excess
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Jack Kerouac |
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I'm best in small doses, believe me.
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quantity
excess
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Mohsin Hamid |