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• Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

  Plutarch

  Quality, Benefits, Lessons

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.292, 谷月社

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• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

  Margaret Fuller

  Age, Mediocrity, Fancy

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• I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

  Robert Plant

  Adventure, People, Track

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

  Bernie Mac

  Comedian, Politician, Knows

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

  Margaret Deland

  Stars, Wall, Men

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• Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

  Margaret Deland

  Spiritual, Believe, Mind

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• sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sometimes

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• When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pay, Realist, Accepting

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• When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

  Jane Jacobs

  Art, Cities, Done

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.372, Vintage

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• To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hallmark, Competence, Knows

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

  Pico Iyer

  Moon, Water, Way

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Feb 16, 2014

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• Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Principles, Different

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 20 : Taxation and Redistribution, 1960.

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• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.

  Jane Roberts

  Personality, Accepting, Humans

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.271, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Block, Ideas, Panic

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

  Debbie Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Opportunity, Work Out

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.103, Penguin

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• the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

  Ruth Simmons

  Children, Important, Accepting

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Imperfection

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mom, Dad, Kind

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.61, Crown

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• I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.

  Iris Origo

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

  Kim Chernin

  Emotional, Body, Obsessed

  Kim Chernin (2009). “The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

  David Bentley Hart

  Philosophical, Wish, Atheism

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