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"The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary."
"The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."
"Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book."
"He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means."
"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
"A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds."
"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."
"I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container."
"And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy."
"In the network's mind there are no limits."
"We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits."
"The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him."
"There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking."
"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination."
"Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position."
"For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless."
