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"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
"Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence."
"It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works."
"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
"Believe there are no limits but the sky."
"In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves."
"Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you."
"Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action."
"Know not to revere human things too much."
"No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity."
"You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great."
"The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination."
"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."
"Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation."
"If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be."
"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"
"A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself."
"I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min"
"Freedom without limits is just a word."
"Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?"
