"So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments."
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"Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?"
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"The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them."
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"Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit."
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"There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint."
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"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."
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"A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so."
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"Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits."
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"We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander."
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"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."
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"Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality."
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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."
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"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
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"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."
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"There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor."
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"The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality."
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"Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day."
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"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
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"Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross."
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"If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility."
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