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“Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.”

Asks Given Levels Acting Consciousness Limits Hurtful

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old

“An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.”

Reality Limits Illusion Speed Faster Speed Limits

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials.”

Limits Unlimited Unlimited Potential

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.”

Art Character Citizens Limits Aids Rejects Instruction Art And Science Defective

Author:Noah Webster

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.”

May Numbers Limits

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.”

Men Humans Different Quality Limits Machines Obvious Excellent Features Subtle Efficient Human Potential Quickening

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.”

Doe Air Limits Vote Regions Conditioning Emissions Susceptible Co2 Air Conditioning Co2 Emissions

Author:Judith Curry

“On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.”

Knows Firsts Shows Too Much Limits Drinking Smoking Curves Learning Curve Drinking Too Much

Author:Dave McPherson

“I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.”

Humans Theory Limits Oil Rejects Technological Ingenuity Peak Oil

Author:Robert P. Murphy

“His true Being comes to light and even penetrates his clothing. We should not limit ourselves to Jesus. We have to recognize ourselves, our own true form... Life would be so simple if we could always see what we are; if we could recognize what our neighbors are. If we could see the beams of light that pass through their clothing; if we could not only see their external form, but also experience their true being.”

Ifs Should Light Would Be Form Jesus Simple Limits Neighbor Clothings Penetrate Beam Beams Of Light

Author:Willigis Jager

“It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.”

People World Different Turns Stuff Levels Sky Streets Keys Limits Lows Advantage Mainstream Different Worlds Buzz Low Key Saturation Sky Is The Limit

Author:Joe Budden

“Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts per million now, and we're up in that zone where the risk of going past irrevocable tipping points is elevated. It's no different than going to a doctor and learning your cholesterol is too high, and you're at risk for a heart attack. You have to work to lower your cholesterol and hope to get there before the heart attack comes.”

Heart Different Past Millions Risk Limits Doctors Scientist Atmosphere Zone Carbon Heart Attack Tipping Irrevocable Cholesterol Tipping Point

Author:Bill McKibben

“The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today.] And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.”

Stills Today Results Limits Losing South African American Ghetto Migration Workforce Suburbanization

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.”

“When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.”

People Mean Might House Can Do Fiction Cases Listening Fine Limits Say Anything Clue Surroundings Non Fiction Fiction Writers Illustrating

Author:Miranda July

“I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.”

Thinking Might Too Much Limits Emphasis

Author:Tommy Lee

“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.”

Writing Stories Song Difficult Fiction Events Pure Limits

Author:Jason Mraz

“I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.”

Thinking Years Able Ten Limits Incredibles Legacy Right Thing Maintaining Doing The Right Thing Own Business

Author:Master P

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.”

Sky Goes On Scene Limits Good Things Chemistry Sections Sky's The Limit

Author:Kevin Hart

“There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.”

Mean Virtue Limits All Things Cease

Author:Horace

“I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits.”

Long Difficult Challenges Limits Long Time

Author:Ed Viesturs

“I have insisted that we must be tolerant. But I also believe that this tolerance has its limits. We must not trust those anti-humanitarian religions which not only preach destruction but act accordingly. For if we tolerate them, then we become ourselves responsible for for their deeds.”

Ifs Believe Limits Destruction Responsible Deeds Humanitarian Tolerance Tolerate

Author:Karl Popper

“To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.”

Thinking Should Looks Reason Use Seems Universe Morning Limits News Definitions Senses Boundaries Compare Contrast Dictionary

Author:Alan Watts

“If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.”

Ifs Found Limits Tolerance Insane Finding Yourself

Author:Brandon Lee

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.”

Seems Earth Numbers Limits Paper Bureaucracy Ecological Weavers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.”

Levels Blood Limits Honey Sugar Twelve Sweating Blood Sugar

Author:Dave Grohl

“I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.”

Limits Containers

Author:Jim Carrey

“For most Olympic athletes‚ their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians‚ training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.”

Challenges Differences Struggle Limits Training Competition Everyday Athlete Hardest Hardship Everyday Life Olympic Athlete

Author:Giles Duley

“We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.”

Years Children Said Kids Three Natural Differences My Own Childhood Mom Dad Limits Six Daughter Concepts Adopted Sibling Loving You Foster Children Mom And Dad My Siblings Courtney Dad Love

Author:Al Roker

“Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.”

Mind Body Action Limits Increase Decrease

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.”

Thinking Real Decision Limits Conscious Survivor You Choose Competitors

Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.”

“If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.”

People Ifs Way Humans Political Individual Involved Limits Fellows Insight Suits Capability Our Love Temperament Working Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?”

Alive Limits Senses

Author:Ray Stevens

“It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.”

Ifs Two Soul Seems Would Be Difficult Views Mountain Limits Average Variety Charm Dull Native Thrown Lakes Flats Inquiry Comprehensive County Retrospect Switzerland Nuisance Statistician

Author:Francis Galton

“In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.”

Law Principles Effects Events Limits Discovery Tasks Uncertainty Uncertainty Principle

Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

“There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.”

Humans Has Beens Matter Facts Young Suffering Human Beings Human Nature Willing Limits Draws Evidence Innocent Conclusion Reasonable

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I

“Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.”

Knows Left Limits Mysterious Moderation Above And Below

Book:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?”

Form Force Known Limits Extremes Breathe Scales Artificial Dread Anguish Elegance Exquisite Precision Refinement Infallible Guarded Roughness

Book:Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works

Source: Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works

“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?”

Thinking Humans May Mean Doe Evil Understanding Term Brain Limits Concepts Complexity Good And Evil Neuroscience Human Brain

Author:Francis Collins

“Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.”

Reality Language Force Answers Mystery Limits Logical Puzzles

Book:The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

Source: The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

“Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.”

Men Limits Buddy

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.”

World Should Stills Jobs America Wonder Enemy Lessons Limits Learning Lessons Unruly

Author:George Will

“Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.”

“The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.”

Care Form President Known Birth Battle Limits Clinton Meaningful Abortion Accusation Tenacious President Clinton Infanticide

Author:George Will

“People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.”

People Ifs Way Want Certain Ability Happened Limits Bunch Screening

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.”

Thinking I Can Wanted Young Can Do Boys Limits Accepted Clever Very Clever

Author:Paul Auster

“As president, I will ensure that the United States is the global energy powerhouse of the 21st century.That means reinstating the Keystone XL Pipeline that President[Barack] Obama rejected. It also means rolling back the regulations from this administration that limit our ability to find resources by imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing and our ability to be energy independent by regulating drilling on federal lands. As president, I will make America an energy leader through technology and innovation.”

“What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.”

Knows Trying Different Limits Projects Genre Different Things

Author:Neige

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