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• The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

  Peter Coyote

  Hurt, Feelings, Body

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

  Herbert Nitsch

  Thinking, Doors, Gone

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• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Revolution

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• I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

  Randy Lerner

  Football, Fate, Past

  "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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• True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

  Socrates

  Lying, Goal, Confession

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• Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Running, Passion

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• We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Moon, Orbit

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• Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, Mitigate, counteract, or transmute.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Responsibility, Evil, Frustrated

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.85, SUNY Press

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• If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

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  Ram Dass

  Meditation, Gains, Resistance

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• Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

  Peter Coyote

  Giving Up, Choices, Advertising

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• Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Art, Order, Land

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• Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Principles, Attention

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• The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, People, Voting

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• The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit the number of their offspring to three or four children, and how this can be accomplished, is both pernicious and an abomination in the sight of the Lord; and it robs both man and his Maker of their glory and increase.

  George F. Richards

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Desire

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• It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Expression

  Michael Spencer (2010). “Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality”, p.125, WaterBrook

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• Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Family Love

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• Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Thinking

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• If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

  John Cornyn

  Meaningful, Government, Obamacare

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• The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, Self, Groups

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Music has no limits of a life-span.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Life Span

  Nadine Gordimer (2007). “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories”, p.158, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creative, Arise

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

  Joseph Sobran

  Tyrants, Abuse, Moral

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• Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

  Joseph Sobran

  Exercise, Government, Constitution

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