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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

Source: The affluent society

“I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.”

Thinking Children Littles Enjoy Company Virtue Too Much Modern Negative Importance Educational Merit Interfere Theorists

Book:In praise of idleness: and other essays

Source: In praise of idleness: and other essays

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]”

Dies Water Too Much Modern Poet Ink

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.”

Ifs Ideas Too Much Modern Married Divorce Upset Household Married Life Candor

Book:A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

Source: A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.”

Ifs Morning Too Much Modern Media Bed Models Criticism Worried Free Market Business Models Modern Media

Author:Daniel Pfeiffer

“In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.”

Looks Stills Age Christianity Too Much Modern Middle Middle Ages Threshold Crude Modern Music Scholasticism

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.”

People Thinking Needs Too Much Modern Exercise Superstitions

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.”

Thinking Men Needs Littles Too Much Modern Serious Offers Crosses Conversion Evangelism Breakdown Cleansing

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.”

Knows Way Mean Stills Matter Kids School Winning Sports Accepting Too Much Modern Events Checks Cheer

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”

Ends Games Forget Too Much Modern Concerned Structure Chess Forget It Pawns Chess Game Checkmate Chess Pawns

Author:Nigel Short

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.”

World Mind Heart Kind Littles Certain Too Much Modern Higher Skills Training Defects Conquest Heart And Mind Acquisition Surveys Higher Education Enlargement

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness