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• As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

  Compay Segundo

  Bored, Desire, Too Much

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• Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

  Twyla Tharp

  Blessing, Secret, Curse

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

  Stan Sakai

  Taste, My Own

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• The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Humans, Organisms

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

  Sam Shepard

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Remembering Sam Shepard: The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Author's 10 Best Quotes on Writing, Love and Life" by Olivia Ladd, parade.com. July 31, 2017.

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• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Power, Government

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• If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

  William L. McKnight

  Inspirational, Creativity, Sheep

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• My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.

  Rakesh Sharma

  Inspirational, Change, Country

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• The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.

  Alvin Lustig

  Life, Relationship, Nature

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• The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

  Louis de Broglie

  Knowledge, Discovery, States

  "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics". Foreword of book by David Bohm, p.10, 1984.

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• It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

  Ludovico Einaudi

  Time, Musician, Energy

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• Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strength, Being Strong, Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

  Prince

  Sympathy, Compassion, Empathy

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• The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

  Astro Teller

  Creativity, Bravery, Intelligence

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• Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

  Hugh Herr

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Technology

  "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.

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• Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Faith, God

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  Edmund Burke

  Riches, Frugality, Economy And Economics

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• To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Foreword to "The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence Krauss, (p. xii), 2007.

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• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, Way, Privatization

  Interview with Rajat Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. August 16, 2005.

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• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

  Robert Smith

  Trying, Arms, Mines

  Guitar Player magazine, 1992.

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• It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

  Northrop Frye

  Essence, Culture, Imaginative

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Media, Journalist

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• Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

  Bobby Heenan

  Fall, Cities, Posts

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• This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Understanding, Cyberspace, Boundaries

  "Internet Time: Will the 'beat' go on?". www.cnn.com. February 26, 1999.

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