Limits Quotes - Page 36

• Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

  Hafez

  Love, Expression, Secret

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• When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Choices, World

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.8, Counterpoint Press

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• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Down And, Failing, Immortality

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• Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, People, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

  John McAfee

  Roots, Use, Should

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• He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Art, Writing, Know How

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• Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

  Pindar

  Death, Moving, Men

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• I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

  James Agee

  Believe, World, Realizing

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• A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

  Paul Theroux

  Social, Persons, Swear

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• Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

  Israel Shenker

  Men, Imagination, Theology

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Textbooks, Fundamentals

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• When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

  Paul Davies

  Jobs, Law, Students

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• If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Ideas, Achievement, Events

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• If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

  John Malkovich

  Smart, Thinking, Ifs

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

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• In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

  Steve Wozniak

  Order, Littles, Way

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• There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

  Piero Scaruffi

  Inspirational, Stupidity, Humans

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• It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.

  Alexander Herzen

  Simple, Men, Theatre

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• Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Spiritual, Boundaries

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Scope

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• Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.

  William Crookes

  Mean, Science, Numbers

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• All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Sports, Science, Hands

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• The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Land, People

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• Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Writing, Essence

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