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“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.”

Ifs Want Trying Mind Desire Turns Goal Can Do Figures Keys Limits Ego Creating Universal Connected What You Want Subconscious

Author:Robert Anthony

“I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.”

Writing May Important Character Facts Might Realizing Differences Sin Common Situation Clear Involved Limits Mercy Universal Redemption Pious Complacent Confessing

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“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

“What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.”

Men Hands Pay Violence Century Policy Limits Equal Universal Property Access Firm Abortion Voting Healthcare Masculine Opposing Contraception Equal Pay

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.”

Firsts Doe Possibility Truth Is Limits Universal Add Access Schemes Inquiry

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience