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“We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.”

Knows Heart Lasts Limits Tests Last Time Wwii

Author:Chris Cleave

“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.”

People Thinking Circumstances Limits Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.”

Thinking Age Limits Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Rakim

“When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.”

People Ifs Ideas Asks Responsibility Steps Limits Projects Built Asking Notes Response Following Employee Good Ideas Taking Responsibility Asking Questions

Author:Richard Branson

“Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?”

Should Different Language Limits Why Not Should I Different Languages Urdu

Author:Junaid Jamshed

“The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.”

“A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables.”

Simple Limits Pages Display Documents Presentation Variables Unpredictability Powerpoint

Author:Michael Bierut

“It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.”

Hard Character Happens Used Reading Social Influence Media Limits Universal Social Media Screens Instance Norm Format 140 Character

Author:Michael Bierut

“The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you.”

Ifs Stills Different Form Belief Issues Limits Patterns Destructive Resentment Belief Systems

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.”

Process Return Conversation Limits Bases Regard Partners Dialogue Ministers Japan Prime Declaration Prime Minister

Author:Vladimir Putin

“One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party behaved against Obama. So much of what they did was to smash pre-existing norms, which were nothing more than assumptions of how people would behave, which didn't have any real basis in rules or limits.”

People Important Real Party Republican Limits Bases Eras Behave Assumption Republican Party Norm

Author:Jonathan Chait

“I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.”

Ifs Expression Limits Concepts Oneself Determined Manifestation Muse Fulfilling Weariness

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something together....We have to know our limits, I don't have the pretense I can change the world. And I don't want to set up events [to raise money]. Because what happens if the following year they don't have an event, they won't eat?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Years I Can Happens Together Events Limits Raises Productions Following Designer Changing The World Pretense

Author:Franca Sozzani

“[My brother] lived in a dry gulch where the world of socks and shoes became extremely fascinating, and he felt that everyone needs a good pair of socks, and why not limit his gift giving to something that everybody needs? He thought that there was something humorous about it. So he gives socks.”

World Needs Giving Felt Brother Limits Humorous Shoes My Brother Dry Fascinating Pairs Why Not Sock Gift Giving

Author:Bill Murray

“Brad Wright, who created Grant MacLaren, had me in mind. We'd actually worked together 20 years ago. He wrote an episode of The Outer Limits that I was in in '96 or '95? So we'd been aware of each other for years. I'd lived in Vancouver off and on, where he's based. And it just came to me, and I'm always looking for something different. Perception was a different show than Will & Grace.”

Years Mind Different Shows Together Grace Limits Perception Years Ago Grants Episodes Brad Vancouver Different Perceptions Outer Limits

Author:Eric McCormack

“Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening.”

Development Limits Happenings

Author:Stan Lee

“I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.”

Moments My Own Stage Fit Limits Studios Genuine

Author:Nas

“Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.”

States Secret Careers Limits Doctrine Administration Barack

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.”

Thinking Culture Gone Limits

Author:Megyn Kelly

“While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.”

Seems Simple Progress Limits Highest Bounds Appreciation Extremes Riders Superhuman Freestyle

Author:Craig Kelly

“I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.”

Thinking Believe I Believe President Term Doubt Limits I Believe In No Doubt Term Limits

Author:Barack Obama

“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.”

Needs Years Two Ability Levels Practice Support Limits Complexes Endurance Capability High Level Divergent Terrain Omitting

Author:Steve House

“Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.”

Humans Matter Levels Clear Special Particular Serious Limits Understood Claims Affair Obligation Significance Competence General Public

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.”

Humans Values Given Deals Circumstances Limits Western Privilege Accomplish Objectives Unusual Predictions Human Will

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.”

People Economy Planets Limits Bones Flesh Debate Opening Our Planet Ideological Pragmatic

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.”

World Stills Self Views Leader Limits Rational Regimes Preservation Twisted Calculations Self Preservation World View

Author:Barack Obama

“I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.”

Thinking Want Ideas Reason Voice Term Limits Reason Why New Ideas Useful Things Term Limits

Author:Barack Obama

“People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms.”

People Way May Drug Limits Claims Lifetime Senior Prescriptions Medicare Discounts Prescription Drugs Mammograms

Author:Barack Obama

“There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.”

Thinking Way Ideas Talking Expression Limits Unspoken Expressions Of Love

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.”

Thinking Knows Limits Rhetoric

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.”

Ifs Way Wells States Government Remember Order Achieve Limits Speech Impact Zone Free Speech Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Edward Snowden

“I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.”

Believe Able I Believe Imagination Streets Wall Limits Authority Locals Disobedience Civil Disobedience Occupy Wall Street

Author:Edward Snowden

“To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.”

World Humans Facts Ability Human Nature Objects Limits Wings Changing The World Eagles Lament Ability To Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.”

People Should Important Matter Understanding Clear Limits Scientist Experts Contribution Explicit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There's no limit to God's love.”

Limits God's Love

Author:Max Lucado

“No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.”

Persons Common Limits Distance His Love Hardened

Author:Max Lucado

“I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.”

Bears Limits

Author:Judith Butler

“There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.”

People Men Dream Limits Accomplish Enterprise Free Market Free Man Free Enterprise Free Market Capitalism

Author:Jack Kemp

“While there are many who feel that morality must be built into law, I believe that the elimination of transsexualism is not best achieved by legislation prohibiting transsexual treatment and surgery but rather by legislation that limits it and by other legislation that lessens the support given to sex-role stereotyping, which generated the problem to begin with.”

Feels Believe Problem Law Given I Believe Sex Roles Support Morality Limits Built Treatment Surgery Legislation Stereotype Elimination Transsexuals

Author:Janice Raymond

“There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.”

People Ifs Future Limits Our Future

Author:Jack Kemp

“When you're training you go to the gym when it's dark, you leave when it's dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you.”

Body Dark Limits Training Your Body Gym

Author:David Haye

“I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Dream Inspire Limits Pops Pursue Nightmare Division Links Association Irrelevant Restriction Pop Music Mock Readiness Unstable Mobility

Author:Paul Morley

“I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

Knows Want Children Dream America Limits Achievement Our Children Your Dreams Willingness

Author:Melania Trump

“There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.”

Thinking Knows Whole Left Term Can Do Numbers Stage Particular Trump Limits Areas Trade Unions Range Remove Barriers Agreement Formal European Union Free Trade Trade Agreements Interim

Author:Theresa May

“If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.”

Ifs Country Enough Jobs Willing Limits Office Agree Determine Beloved Better Jobs Public Office Beloved Family

Author:Ted Nugent

“I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?”

People Ifs Want Kind May Book Seems Grows Waiting Growth Term Space Company Limits Economics Valuable Primitive Publishing Expanding Corrections Down The Road Retail New Business

Author:William Gibson

“I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.”

Thinking I Can Different Sides Term Position Limits Both Sides Term Limits

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I think part of Donald Trump's appeal is that he's a guy that does cut corners, that he's the guy that does get deals and maybe does break a speed limit. I think there was sort of a roguish, rascally, but I get things done even if I break the rules.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Done Guy Deals Break Cutting Trump Limits Corners Speed Appeals Things Done Speed Limits

Author:Mark Shields

“[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.”

Form Order Successful Influence Land Conditions Advice Limits Conscious Agree Unions China Reform Chinese Leap Vietnam Soviet Harsh Assistance Soviet Union

Author:William J. Duiker

“Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to limit the appeal of their ideas rather than to "win hearts and minds," as the Vietminh and the National Liberation Front did in Vietnam so many decades ago.”

Mind Heart Ideas Use Today Winning Sun Fronts Limits Terrorism Decades Appeals Liberation Islamic Vietnam Heart And Mind Dissidents

Author:William J. Duiker

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