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• To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hallmark, Competence, Knows

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Principles, Different

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 20 : Taxation and Redistribution, 1960.

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• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Block, Ideas, Panic

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

  Debbie Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Opportunity, Work Out

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.103, Penguin

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• the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

  Ruth Simmons

  Children, Important, Accepting

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• I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.

  Iris Origo

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

  Kim Chernin

  Emotional, Body, Obsessed

  Kim Chernin (2009). “The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

  David Bentley Hart

  Philosophical, Wish, Atheism

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• Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Ties, Games

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Light, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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• But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.

  Paul A. Baran

  Order, Study, Reason

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.4, NYU Press

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• Most of the network related programming in games has to do with providing a good interactive experience when playing over the internet. This matter is very different from serving web pages. The primary concern there is to handle connection latency, latency fluctuations, packet loss and bandwidth limitations, and pretty much hide all of that from the player's experience.

  Timothee Besset

  Loss, Player, Games

  "ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games". Network Performance Daily, January 29, 2007.

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• Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Enlightenment, Frailty, Grows

  Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.5, SUNY Press

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• You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.

  Margery Wilson

  Responsibility, Thinking, Victim

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• It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

  Ellen Barkin

  Girl, Queens, New York

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• Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.

  Phil Anselmo

  Two, Genre Is, Lessons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

  W. H. Auden

  Differences, Age, Who We Are

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• I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

  John Bradshaw

  Evil, Broken, Shadow

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• I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

  Tom Fontana

  Writing, Violin, Tubas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Ham, Radio

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• Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Weak Man, Rudeness

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 241, 1955.

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