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• ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

  Bob Black

  Order, Giving, Police

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Fate, Hands

  "On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet". Interview with Anna Couey, chomsky.info. May 6, 1998.

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• Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Stay Positive, Negative

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “How High Will You Climb?: Determine Your Success by Cultivating the Right Attitude”, p.88, Thomas Nelson

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• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Writing, Perfect, Choices

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• I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

  Jim Breyer

  Believe, President, Boards

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• In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Decision, Cases, Limitation

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• What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

  Saint Basil

  Life, Men, Soul

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• For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Islands, Sea

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• Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Age, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

  Jessye Norman

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, Air

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Kings, Successful, Ego

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• They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

  Jonathan Cainer

  Life, Trying, Should

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• Think the unthinkable,
  Imagine the impossible
  Pursue the imaginations limits.

  Allan Weisbecker

  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

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• I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Religious, Philosophical

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Then be sure of one thing:
  The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
  The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

  Richard Bach

  Beauty, Sin, Messiah

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• I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Dream, Children

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• Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Knowledge, Learning

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (2000). “Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Real

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• For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Truth, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Practice, Organization

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• There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.218, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Happiness, Goal, Investing

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• The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Time, Expression, Separation

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• Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

  James Bovard

  Government, Political, Liberty

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