Limits Quotes
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Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover that even those paradigms have their limits. There are a million Hindus in this country, and over three million Buddhists, and neither of those communities would be called Abrahamic. But they live in America, too, and we have to have a paradigm that includes them.
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I just love working with people who consistently push the limits, who try to be different and expand the talent that they have.
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If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?
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Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
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I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?
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Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.
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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
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Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.
