Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them.... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
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Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.
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The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.
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Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
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In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.
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The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly exceeds the tools and techniques available to sort,extract, and apply the information we've collected.
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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
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The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, VII: Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!
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When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success
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When your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep is your downfall.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
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If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
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Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
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Talk is cheap beacuse supply exceeds demand.
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