There are more things to GAIN from eliminating excess than you might IMAGINE: TIME, space, freedom, and energy, for EXAMPLE.

I'm too VAIN, one of my BIGGEST SINS, but it saved me; I can SEE what excess does.

The first THING you need to know, in ORDER to establish some PERSPECTIVE and avoid panic, is that the violent GOVERNMENT excesses we're seeing TODAY are far from unprecedented.

What BEGAN as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess HOME inventories that have pushed down home PRICES for RESPONSIBLE homeowners.

The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already EARNED a PLACE in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the MCCARTHY ERA.

Up until the Depression, RECESSION had a moral character: it was SUPPOSED to purge the body economic of the GREED and EXCESS that attends a business expansion.

What FUN it WOULD be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in EXCESS is most exhilarating.

I train twice a day, and I make sure I eat right. I'm an AVID tea drinker, and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess WATER weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a COMBINATION of different things with my training.

Tough TIMES helped many commodities producers BECOME lean and MEAN through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

I've always had these MORALS I've SORT of put on myself: that excess is BAD. I used to be into Buddhism and STUFF. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting THINGS out.

Pincurling is my SECRET! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don't have to USE all that EXCESS HEAT EVERY day trying to curl it; I just pincurl it.

I need to be FIT and STRONG, and I don't WANT to CARRY any excess fat.

I NEVER SMOKE to EXCESS - that is, I smoke in MODERATION, only one cigar at a TIME.

In PRINCIPLE, JUNK bonds are BASICALLY USEFUL, but they are USED excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.