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1 " I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum "
― Janet Evanovich , Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
2 " We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. "
3 " The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89) "
― Joseph Campbell , Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
4 " There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at. "
― Michael Connelly , A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7; Terry McCaleb, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #9)
5 " I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
