superabundance

• “St Thomas Aquinas once said Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance”

  Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks.

• “Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”

  Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism

• “Finally, A.O Scott hit on what I think is the central issue: what he termed a "superabundance" of information and choice brought on largely by technology.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Are the Best Movies for Grown-Ups Being Made Outside the U.S.?

• “Already we have Doctors and Diseases in superabundance, and the supply of Dollars is wholly subject to human control.”

  Dollars, Doctors, and Disease

• “To cite one example, St. Thomas Aquinas maintained that "whatever we have in 'superabundance'-that is, above and beyond what will reasonably satisfy our own needs and those of our family, for the present and foreseeable future-'is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance'" (p. 20).”

  A Thinking Reed

• “The fourth consideration is a certain plumpness, in other words, a superabundance of the vegetative function, plasticity ....”

  Essays of Schopenhauer

• “Your Majesty has a large body of infantry in these islands; and although it is in the Yndias, where it seems to those in España that everything is in superabundance, that is”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

• “The fourth consideration is a certain _plumpness_, in other words, a superabundance of the vegetative function, plasticity ....”

  Essays of Schopenhauer

• “Portrait of a Lady,” while I do find in it an amount of analysis which I should call superabundance if it were not all such good literature.”

  Henry James

• “Not only was Gandhi a complex man, there is also a 'superabundance' of surviving contemporary information on him.”

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