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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing…
— Susan Sontag
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Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an…
— John P. Jumper
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.…
— Gregory Bateson
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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
— Gloria Steinem
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its…
— Robert H. Jackson
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity…
— George Santayana
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
— Thomas Paine
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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a…
— Jacques Monod
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men…
— Alfred Adler
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There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the…
— Francis Galton
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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding…
— Francis Bacon
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell…
— Watchman Nee
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
— Heinrich Heine
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