Limits Quotes - Page 24

• The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, People, Voting

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• There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Long, Expansion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1553, Manonmani Publishers

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• Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Principles, Attention

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• If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

  John Cornyn

  Meaningful, Government, Obamacare

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• It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Expression

  Michael Spencer (2010). “Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality”, p.125, WaterBrook

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• It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

  David Suzuki

  Truth, Discovery, Profound

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• Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."

  George Ade

  Work, Reading, Writing

  "The Best of George Ade".

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• Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love is a strength. Love is a goodness, like Godliness. There is no limit to it. There is no shortage in it. There is no bargaining in it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Thinking

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• Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Family Love

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• Belief in limits creates limited people

  Tony Robbins

  People, Belief

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.

  Kent Nerburn

  Beautiful, God, Morning

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library

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• Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Challenges, Self Reliance

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• Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Eye, Origin Of Life, Law

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• It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

  John O'Callaghan

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

  Guy Oseary

  Book, Tv Shows, Able

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• The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Ends, Rationality

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• Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  World, Roaming, Quiet

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• ...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Civilization, Goal

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• As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.

  Rod Dreher

  Ideas, Desire, Climate

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• A man's got to know his limitations.

  Harry Callahan

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

  Alan Watts

  People, Giving, Wonder

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• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Organization

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• Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Fall, Example, Doe

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 29, 2016

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