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• To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Design, Style

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• Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

  A. E. Hotchner

  Motivational, Done, Succeed

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Fate, Expression

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

  Beth Moore

  Hurt, Effectiveness, Profound

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Real, Space, World

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• In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Darkness, Add, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.23

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• When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

  David Goggins

  Thinking, Done, Body

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• Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Dream, Fun, Love You

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• I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Mind, Imagine, Can Do

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.35, Penguin

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• Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.

  Michio Kushi

  Memories, Believe, People

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• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, People

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• If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

  Jane Espenson

  Writing, Giving, Diversity

  "TV Mastermind Jane Espenson: From to to Evil Queens". Interview with Neal Broverman, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

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• If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

  John Eliot

  Success, Achievement, Want

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.11, Diversion Books

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• You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Powerful, Way, Belief

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• The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Allies, Bookstores, Natural

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• Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Mean, Over You

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

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• In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

  Charles Kettering

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Abuse, Purpose, May

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  Steven Holl

  Always Trying, World, Architect

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• A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

  Gish Jen

  Men, Made

  "Typical American". Book by Gish Jen, 1991.

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• There's no such thing as boundaries only limits that get pushed further and further.

  Travis Pastrana

  Boundaries

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• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

  May Sarton

  Light, Sloth, Important

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Believe, Magic

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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