"Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice."
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"In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations."
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"There is a limit to what you can do in politics."
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"I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits."
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"I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation."
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"[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits."
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"Human sympathy has its limits."
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"There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering."
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"I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit."
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"Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change."
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"For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second."
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"To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule"
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"There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover."
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"One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits."
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"Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American."
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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
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"Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value."
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"Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love"
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"I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship."
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"The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged."
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