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• Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

  RuPaul

  Lines, Littles, Draws

  "RuPaul's Drag Race: 'Reunion'" by Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. May 01, 2012.

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• In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

  Arthur Danto

  Art, Mistake, Philosophical

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• God has placed clear limits on Man’s intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

  John Corapi

  Men, Stupidity, Clear

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• Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

  Brad Linaweaver

  Responsibility, Important, Fiction

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• A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Order, Law

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Thinking, Tests, Traveling Alone

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• Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a great asset because when you think you have reached your limit, there is someone who can push you to go further.

  Brian Houston

  Thinking, Training, Achieve

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.59, Hillsong Music Australia

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• Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Mind, Causes, Impossible

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• College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

  Bill Gaede

  College, Cookies, Machines

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• If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

  Mark Frost

  Men, Half, Might

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

  Ray Stata

  Creativity, Technology, Innovation

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

  Telle Whitney

  Diversity, Innovation, Problem

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• I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Heart, Compassion, Order

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.23, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

  Alexander Kluge

  Expression, People, Community

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• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  Bill Bonner

  Running, Adversity, Men

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• Limit love and you limit life.

  Vera Stanley Alder

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Night, Islands

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Bugs, Ability

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

  Kevin VanDam

  Practice, Pounds

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• The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!

  Yukito Kishiro

  Battle, Purpose, Height

  "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 8: Fallen Angel". Manga series by Yukito Kishiro, September 1, 1994.

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• Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

  Yukito Kishiro

  Children, Creativity, Greatness

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• Do not limit the shape and size in which your miracle can come. Sometimes the smallest keys turn the biggest locks.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Keys, Miracle, Locks

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