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“Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.”

Humans Challenges Human Beings Ability Conditions Planets Limits Tasks Prosperity Our Time Our Society Finite Urgent Ecological

Book:Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

“The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.”

People Made Government Choices Courses Individual Responsibility Rights Limits Court Bounds Supreme Supreme Court Choices Made

Author:Elena Kagan

“Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes - what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back - to widen the 'sphere' of possible action.”

Believe Reality Action Used Purpose Magic Limits Approach Technique Boundaries Limitation Range One Time Spheres Esoteric

Author:Phil Hine

“There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.”

Men Years Seems Opportunity Conditions Military Limits Permanent Officials Occupation Routine Scope

Author:John Monash

“Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing”

Ifs Trying Can Do Steps Too Much Limits

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers graze it, it vanishes to appear much further off, in another form, at the limits of the imagination.”

Men Mind Doe Form Imagination He Man Adventure Limits Fingers Pursue

Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

“What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.”

People Thinking Heart Stills Difficult Situation Poverty Limits Tragedy Patient Spite Unemployment Starvation Siege Difficult Situations

Author:Yasser Arafat

“It kind of limits what we can call the albums.”

Kind Limits Albums

Author:Will Farquarson

“We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.”

Children Care Parent Quality Vision Easier Cost Limits Percent Workers Available Be Good Income Good Work Affordable Good Parent Caregivers Child Care

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.”

Character Turns Movement Limits Narrative Heat

Author:Emma Donoghue

“The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.”

“The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.”

Way Doe Can Do Accepting Roles Limits Logic Evolve Empires

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.”

Facts Problem Limits Waste Destruction

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.”

Ifs Limits Democratic Vulnerable Fearful Premises Scarcity

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.”

People Ifs Two Country Used Spirit Culture Language Sky Honor Limits Commitment Letters India Terrorist Ties Territory Cooperation Pakistan Promoting Two Countries Sky Is The Limit

Author:Manmohan Singh

“If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Genius Limits Labels

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.”

Men Kind Gone Limits Extremes Obsessed Climbing Scotland Everest Outlander

Author:Sam Heughan

“I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.”

Thinking Knows Mind Stories Possibility Strange Planets Huge Limits Doctors Immortal Mortality

Author:Tilda Swinton

“With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.”

Use Choices Cutting Limits Raises Competition Workers Crowds Consumers Corporations Wages Small Business

Author:Hillary Clinton

“One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Language Limits Claims

Author:Martha Ronk

“I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction, so that you can then use that reaction later for something else. But when it's gratuitous language or physical exposure, then I get a bit like, "Oh! Put it away!"”

Way Feels Kind Long Use Used Energy Language Bits Rooms Particular Limits Reactions Exposure

Author:Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.”

Feels Impossible Limits Bored

Author:Vince Staples

“We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.”

Thinking Play Heaven Hell Fire Limits Angel Untrue Harps

Author:James Van Praagh

“Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.”

“Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Important Ends Found Natural Lines Havens Right Now Limits Advertising Ads Revolt

Author:Tim Wu

“My job is to be the best teammate I can be, push these guys to the limit every day, make sure that I'm being the right type of leader.”

I Can Jobs Guy Leader Type Limits Being The Best Teammate Best Team

Author:Dwight Howard

“I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.”

People Thinking Shows Faces Term Records Citizens Limits Including Conviction Terrorism Criminals Permanent Canada Citizenship Chips Allegiance Oath Residents

Author:Chris Alexander

“There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.”

Limits Corporations Massive

Author:Kshama Sawant

“What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.”

Years Made Country States Interesting Groups Citizens Limits Election Campaigns Locals Discussion Election Years

Author:Ralph Nader

“It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.”

Ifs Democracy Limits Leaving Candidates Bubbles Consultants Pundits

Author:Ralph Nader

“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.”

Years Believe Wells Country Facts Millions Gone Birth Ten Limits Europe Rate Including Other Countries Seventies Birth Rate

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.”

Way Should Moments Records Limits

Author:Terry Bozzio

“There are limits put on women, but why should there be?”

Should Limits

Author:Gwen Stefani

“We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.”

People Knows Facts Universe Black Failing Theory Limits Holes Zero Equations Dividing Singularity Black Hole

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.”

Thinking Mind Song Ability Limits Video

Author:David Gilmour

“I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss.”

People Knows Want Age Young Limits Boss I Want You Own Business

Author:Zendaya

“I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.”

Thinking Important Age Limits Elements Boss

Author:Zendaya

“The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world. For one thing, being Western puts you outside the limits. A token female doesn't hurt - there's only one.”

World Has Beens Bigs Hurt One Thing Figures Limits Female India Western Friendly Tokens Lama Tibet Ladakh

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.”

Thinking Should States Would Be United Mistake United States Four Limits Corners Graves Welcome Allies

Author:Gerald Horne

“The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.”

Term Class Forever Limits Permanent Expertise Legislators Lobbyists Term Limits

Author:Tim Kaine

“I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.”

Ifs Thinking Term Limits Increase Lobbying Term Limits

Author:Tim Kaine

“One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.”

Ifs Country States Opportunity Speak Language My Own United United States Limits Oneself Immigrants You Choose Polish

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.”

Thinking Believe Said I Believe Clear One Thing Husband Limits Agree My Husband

Author:Michelle Obama

“The best thing that we can do on climate change is make sure that China converts to a more nuclear future to limit those - that one coal-burning plant coming on a week that we expect - that would really help the planet. We need to work cooperatively with developing countries to make sure they emit less.”

Needs Country Helping Can Do Week Planets Limits Plant Climate Climate Change China Nuclear Burning Developing Best Things Coal Developing Countries

Author:Mark Kirk

“Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.”

Believe Government Today Individual Ought Limits Taxes Percent Rate Senators Mccain Federal Taxes

Author:Karl Rove

“In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.”

Believe Government America Ought Limits

Author:Karl Rove

“The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.”

Government Ought Limits

Author:Karl Rove

“I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.”

Feels Trying Gone Limits

Author:Masiela Lusha

“You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.”

People Want Limits

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.”

Sky Limits Department Personnel

Author:Lily Collins

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