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"By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything"
"Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world."
"Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge."
"It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself."
"Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another."
"But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves."
"Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . ."
"Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time."
"Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact."
"My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed."
"A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum."
"The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life."
"If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world."
"Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves."
"But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving"
"You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit."
"Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius."
"A man's just gotta know his limits"
"when u knw ur limits u go byond them"
"Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules."
