Excess Benefit Transaction

Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or benefit:

    “There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)