Limits Quotes - Page 39

• Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, America, Air

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Opportunity, Space, House

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• This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Depressing, Thinking, Availability

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• Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

  Matthew Lewis

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

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• I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Thinking, Play, Radio

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  Samantha Morton

  Decision, Made, Get Real

  "A blonde with lots of bottle" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2002.

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• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  Ted Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Space

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• It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

  Jamie Oliver

  School, Kids, Giving

  "Jamie Oliver: 'No one understands me. No one'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.

  Rene Descartes

  Ontology, Logic, Infinite

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• Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

  Jacob Lew

  Party, Responsibility, Voting

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• Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

  Jacob Lew

  Debt, Levels, Spending

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• I never exceed the posted speed limit.

  Jason Priestley

  Speed, Exceed, Speed Limits

  "10 Burning Questions for Jason Priestley". Page 2 Interview, www.espn.com.

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• If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Usa, Age

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• You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Want, Certain

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

  Ving Rhames

  Giving, Hollywood

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

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• I no longer limit myself.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

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• The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

  Rupert Spira

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

  Johann Lamont

  Leader, Way, Changed

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Speed, Hours

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• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  People, Interesting, Pushing

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

  David Tang

  Space, Internet

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