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• Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

  Cesar Millan

  Children, Becoming, Boundaries

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Hurt, Believe

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• Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters — what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability — is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.

  Glenn Kurtz

  What Matters, Practice, Boundaries

  Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage

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• Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation

  Pete Egoscue

  Pain, Wellness, Absence

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• Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

  Christian Smith

  Real, Creative, Fuel

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• Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

  Steven Furtick

  Opportunity, Waiting, Want

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.197, Multnomah

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• Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

  Timothy Keller

  Fit, Absence, Constraints

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.64, Penguin

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• Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

  Hugh Herr

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Technology

  "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.

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• Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Relationship, Disappointment, Grateful

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Self, People

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• The primary goal I set for myself on how I define what success looks like for me is am I working at a company that matters? Am I working with somebody who I think affects positive change? Am I providing a benefit to my family? Am I enjoying myself? Why would I put a limitation on my enjoyment? There is an old view on Wall Street that says, 'They love you until they don't.' I am going to stay happy until I am not.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Wall, Love You, Thinking

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• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Mind, Vision

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• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  W. G. Sebald

  Writing, Giving, Patterns

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

  Mark Stevenson

  Exercise, Renaissance, Damage

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• Briefs need limitations and invitations

  David Rockwell

  Needs, Invitations

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• To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

  Laozi

  Mean, Heaven, Vision

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Glasses, Hollywood

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• Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Reactions, Organisms

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• The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

  Neil Postman

  Photography, Space, Humanity

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