"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."
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"The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit."
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"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."
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"Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music."
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"The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood."
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"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets."
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"I just want to go as far as I can take myself. No limits."
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"The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't."
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"Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't."
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"Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence."
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"We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right."
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"We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand."
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"Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind."
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"Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits."
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"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
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"It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists."
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"I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe."
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"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
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"Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour."
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"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
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