Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish."
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Limits
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Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
Sunita Williams
Astronaut
"Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any."
Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit"
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind"
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"Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status."
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"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
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"The sky is not the limit. Your mind is"
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"You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them."
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
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"I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery"
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"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!"
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"You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
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"Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand"
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"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."
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"To define is to limit."
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"As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments."
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"If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration."
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"A child needs freedom within limits."
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"Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
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"The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities."
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"I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine."
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"A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us."
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"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison."
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"Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures."
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