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• I don't limit myself.

  Emeril Lagasse

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Order, Use, Way

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• Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bullshit, Smoking, Recycling

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

  O. Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Lines

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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• I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

  Rick Moranis

  Country, Rocks, Listening

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• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, War

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• Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

  Vannevar Bush

  Faith, Stress, Knowledge

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

  Richard Bach

  Ideas, Perfection, Purpose

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• I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

  Adam Faith

  Dream, Years, Blue

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• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  Merv Griffin

  Kings, Doubt, Television

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• The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Animal, Men, Race

  "The Social Life of Animals". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, Chapter VII: Some Human Implications, 1938.

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• So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Growing Up, Biblical, Years

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• I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

  Jeri Ryan

  Fun, Gun, Hands

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• Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Men

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• I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Life, Giants, Looks

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• All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

  Robert Collier

  Return, Action, Possibility

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Law of the Higher Potential”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Causes, Facts

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• The law always limits every power it gives.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Power, Law

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.207

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• Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Treasure, Possession, Limitation

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.12, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Law, Tyrants

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  E. B. White

  Pessimistic, Complicated, Accounts

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• The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, President, Republic

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Thinking, Dorms

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• I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  Robert B. Parker

  Girl, Senior, School

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