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• Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.

  Benny Urquidez

  Foundation, Humans

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Important, Armament, Security

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• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Reality, Growth

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  Earle Brown

  Reflection, Numbers, People

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• The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

  Anthony Braxton

  Way, Music Is, Convenient

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• Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Self, Desire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

  Orrin Hatch

  Real, Judging, May

  "Day One of the Roberts Hearings". Orrin Hatch's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.

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• Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

  Og Mandino (1982). “Og Mandino's University of Success”

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• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Learning, Acceptance

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

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• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, Economy, Working It

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• Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

  Bob Proctor

  Unique, Imagination, Remember

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 04, 2013

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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• Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Imagine

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 25, 2014

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Doubt, Together

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 18, 2012

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• If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

  William L. McKnight

  Inspirational, Creativity, Sheep

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• Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

  John T. Scopes

  Education, Country, Teacher

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• It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Dream, Fear

  "Living beyond limits". TED conference, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Exercise

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• If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.

  L. David Mech

  Hater, Nature, Attitude

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• Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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