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• There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

  Rick Santorum

  Bills, Months, Republican

  "Santorum's Health Care Stall Tactic: 'Offer Literally Thousands of Amendments' to Keep Senate in Session for Months". www.mediamatters.org. February 27, 2010.

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• Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Order, Goal, Focus

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• I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

  Jack White

  White, Stripes, Band

  "What's Eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.

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• Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Numbers, Doctors, Anxiety

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• It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Hard Work, Writing

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• Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

  Nick Bostrom

  Data Collection, Inference, Process

  Director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom (2013). “Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy”, p.1, Routledge

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• It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Responsibility, Owing

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception”, p.74, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Light

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• Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Wisdom, Growth, Purpose

  John D. Rockefeller (1973). “The second American revolution: some personal observations”, Harpercollins

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• By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

  Emil Zatopek

  Athlete, Effort, Mind

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• We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 112), 1966.

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• For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Impossible, Believer, Impossibility

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• Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Would Be, Accepting, Disabled

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• Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

  David Allen

  Moving, People, Chairs

  "'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

  Michelle Singletary

  Children, Mean, College

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• Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

  Thomas Sowell

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.

  Gregg Braden

  Believe, Past, Mind

  Gregg Braden (2009). “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Hands, Guilty

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.46

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• Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Equality, Race

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.161, Berghahn Books

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• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

  Margaret Fuller

  Age, Mediocrity, Fancy

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• When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pay, Realist, Accepting

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• When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

  Jane Jacobs

  Art, Cities, Done

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.372, Vintage

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• Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

  Pico Iyer

  Moon, Water, Way

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Feb 16, 2014

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