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• Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Opportunity, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Failure, Opportunity, Risk

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• Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, People, Democracy

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.287, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Might, Earth, Economics

  Kenneth E. Boulding, Harold J. Barnett, Rene Dubos, Leonard J. Duhl, Ralph Turvey, Roland N. McKean, Allen V. Kneese, M. Mason Gaffney, Gilbert F. White, David Lowenthal, Norton E. Long, Jacob H. Beuscher (1966). “Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy”

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• Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Optimistic, Expression

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• As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Unlimited Potential, Imagination

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• With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to do. I also got to study the success of those I did business with as well. I had more than a healthy dose of fear, and an unlimited amount of hope, and more importantly, no limit on time and effort.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Mistake, Effort

  Article by Mark Cuban, blogmaverick.com. May 30, 2005.

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• The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Power, Men, Nero

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 27, 2014

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• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  Abigail Adams

  Wedding, Husband, Women

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

  Steve Lacy

  Saxophone

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Modern Life, Internet

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

  Rand Paul

  Opportunity, Promise, Tangible

  "Rand Paul To Howard University: 'Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans'" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Unity, Generations

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• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  William Pitt

  Law, Mind, Lord

  William Pitt (1839). “Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Edited by William Stanhope Taylor and John Henry Pringle ...”, p.387

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• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

  William Pitt

  Power, Politics, Power Corrupts

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• It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Hands, Rely Upon

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ideas

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• The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Order, Pay

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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• Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Meaningful, Creativity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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• But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doctors, Hair, Cells

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• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

  Brad Henry

  Family Love, Compassion, Hopeful

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• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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