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• I love the fact that not many people can say 'Oh, I went out and ran 20 miles today.' I love how much dedication it takes and how much you learn a lot about yourself, your physical and mental limits. There's just something about it.

  Shalane Flanagan

  Dedication, People, Today

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• I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Art, Climbing, Suffering

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• The sky is not the limit. Your mind is

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sky, Mind

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• The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Stars, Heart

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• Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

  Newt Gingrich

  Play, Briefing, Presses

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• A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Excuse, Wells

  Election victory speech, www.smh.com.au. September 7, 2013.

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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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• Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!

  Jennie Finch

  Satisfied

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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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• Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.

  Luke Watson

  Motivational, Running, Workout

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• The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Democracy, Virtue

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• The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Numbers, Vivid

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• To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Judging, Able, Moments

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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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• There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Point Break, Boundaries

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• No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Athlete, Thinking

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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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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Herman Kahn

  Mean, Views, Defense

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Natural

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on the French Revolution”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• 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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