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• The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  God, Way, Limits

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.162, Macmillan

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• The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Space, Body, Internet

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Determination, War, Skills

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• No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Country, Kings, Past

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.12, Random House

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• A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Progress, Rising

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Pain, Father

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• In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Civilization, People

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

  Christian McKay

  Looks, Film, Stage

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• As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fancy, Individual, Feels

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Eureka”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.

  James R. Swartz

  Good Night, Sleep, Self

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• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  America, Diversity, Long

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Fullness Of Life, Surprise, Gratefulness

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• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Needs, World

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• Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Broken, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.17, Yale University Press

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• The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

  Dominique Bouhours

  Imagination, Intelligence, Experience

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• The limitations are limitless.

  Beck

  Miscellaneous, Limitation

  Song: Painted Eyelids, Album: One Foot In The Grave, 1994

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• Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

  Jane Fonda

  Reality, Feminism, Ultimate

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• I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Knowing

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, October 17, 1995.

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• The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

  Billy Gibbons

  Sea, Rivers, Long

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• We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

  Adrienne Rich

  Greed, May, Littles

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• We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.

  Philip K. Jason

  Freedom, Fear, Safety

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• If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

  Alec Soth

  Creativity, Internet, Good Things

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• Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.

  Richard Salsman

  Government, America, Arbitrary

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