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Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

Frederick Lenz

Moving, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

Shawn Ryan

Team, Thinking, Years

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Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

Pope Francis

Food, Giving, Excess

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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Jeremy Irons

Risk, Desire, Fields

"Jeremy Irons on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Ron Kind

Leadership, Believe, Important

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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

Reality, Historical, Normal

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You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Baby, Order, Monsters

"I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.

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When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.

Ivan Reitman

Stars, Successful, Creative

Source: www.avclub.com

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The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

Pope Benedict XVI

Educational, School, Important

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The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life-different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability-mingle so freely.

Tom Vanderbilt

Lifestyle Choices, Race, Class

Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.6, Vintage

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These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Grant Morrison

Character, Play, Twelve

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Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Neil Gaiman

Art, Bounce

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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.

Karl-Henrik Robert

Inspiring, Dad, Rain

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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Andrew Bird

Song, Play, Appreciate

"The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard

Death, Children, Car

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I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

David Sedaris

Live Your Life, Promise, Refrigerators

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It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

David Sedaris

Live Your Life, Strict

David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.

Catherynne M. Valente

Running, Distance, Skills

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…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde

Mean, Usual, Normalcy

Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Bram Cohen

Simple, Python, Support

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When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

Chuck Klosterman

Writing, Next Day, Use

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I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Inspirational, Learning, Fighting

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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Abdul Kalam

Yield, Numbers, Nuclear

"India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Eliot Spitzer

Management, Behavior, Profit

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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Larry Wall

Would Be, Routine, Definitions

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