Limits Quotes

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There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth… — Richard Bach
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… — Samuel Johnson
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural… — Thomas Jefferson
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. — Winston Churchill
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop… — Frank Chodorov
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to… — Jim Rohn
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. — David Viscott
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. — Simon Newcomb
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with… — Immanuel Kant
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac

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