Limits Quotes
2452 Limits quotes by 1712 unique authors
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Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political…
— Douglass North
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With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to…
— Mark Cuban
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions,…
— Rowan Williams
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century
— Lewis Mumford
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
— Kerry Emanuel
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Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
— Frontinus
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing…
— Unknown Author
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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
— Mark Twain
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The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.
— Jacques Barzun
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The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it…
— Alexander Calder
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but…
— Noam Chomsky
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If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the…
— Douglas Adams
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The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the…
— Richard Rolle
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Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing…
— Yanni
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Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so…
— Paulo Coelho
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The law of attraction says there are no limits and anything is possible. Your imagination has no limits, and anything is possible for you to…
— Rhonda Byrne
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