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“So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.”

Years Looks Stories Grows Growing Up Limits Draws Biblical Inclination

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.”

World Years Ideas Lasts Law Cost Limits Highest Congress Cards No Idea Reasonable Last Year Reserves Transactions Fees Processing Federal Reserve American Business Debit Debit Cards

Author:Peter Welch

“It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”

World Years Reading This World Limits Take Me Indispensable

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Years Self Genius Thousand Limits Twelve Self Control Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm Frick

“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”

“It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”

“There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.”

“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.”

“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.”

People Men World Years Has Beens Helping Today Past Situation Destiny Achieve Limits Happenings Tasks Essence Socialism Explicit

Author:Martin Heidegger

“"I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."”

Years Said Political Used Politics Term Fans Changed Huge Like You Limits Approach Spending Used To Be Former Crew Term Limits

Author:Mark Sanford

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Made Sometimes Age Wanted Certain Couple Limits Singing Years Ago Guitar Jail Realising Realised Playing Guitar Loving Myself

Author:Theresa Wayman

“When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.”

Years Sometimes Pain Emotional Months Limits Prison Sentences Rational Minors Tickets Traffic Offense Emotional Pain

Author:David D. Burns

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth”

Years May Has Beens Ends Form Wealth Stage Divine Flower Source Limits Late Lows Dancing Mere Glorious This Day Phases Inward Professionalism Fading Frivolous Proficiency May Flowers

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.”

Years Ends America Nations Can Do Century Judging Limits Thirds Boundaries Endless Experiments Meant To Be Entering Calendars Were Meant To Be No Boundaries

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.”

Thinking World Should Years Moving Limits Legs Champion Hats Hook World Champions Judah

Author:Andy Kindler

“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

“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

“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.”

“The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district.”

Years Wells Long States Enough Law Individual President United Opinion United States Limits Eight Serving Representatives

Author:Michele Bachmann

“There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.”

Way Years Believe Has Beens Two Three Break Knowing Succeed Limits Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Nathan Parsons

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that's why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That's the problem with the American role.”

“I've been on antidepressants for years, and it worked to stop my anxiety and didn't limit creativity. Some of the best work I've done, in fact, is after I started taking the antidepressants.”

Years Done Facts Creativity Limits Anxiety Best Work Antidepressants

Author:Temple Grandin

“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. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.”

Thinking Years Believe Two Lasts I Believe President Term Numbers Doubt Team Limits I Believe In Arguing No Doubt Last Year Term Limits I Am The Best

Author:Barack Obama

“I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.”

Years Imagination Possibility Limits Up To You Saxophone Sopranos

Author:Steve Lacy

“In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.”

Years Hard Enough Government Choices Growth President Break Economic Limits Percent Clean Size Spending Economic Growth Gdp Size Of Government Federal Spending

Author:Paul Ryan

“I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.”

Years Understanding Accepting Class Limits Backgrounds Gaps Application Aptitude Freshman Knowledge And Understanding Freshman Year

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

Years Known Study Limits Hundred Weight Average Tiny Grandmother Eighty Ants Peasants Lifting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

Years Born Possibility Limits Years Ago Lazy Forty

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.”

Thinking Want Writing Trying Years I Can Enough Teach Wise Students Limits Speed Quitting Smoking Odds Getting Old Being Wise Quit Smoking Speed Limits

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

“If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.”

“Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”

Years Young Grows Week Limits And Love Moved Charity Sour Swiftness

Book:Lonesome Dove: A Novel

Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel

“In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.”

People Knows Years Littles Seems Lasts Literature Hell Limits Presses Depth British Pigs Tabloids Go To Hell

Author:John le Carre

“As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.”

Ifs Knows Men Love Life Years Stills Use Age Time Pleasure Know How Limits And Love Embrace Aging Extremes Old Age Sweetest

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It was very difficult. We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell. I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.”

Want Inspirational Years Real Problem Able Difficult Challenges Business Situation Hell Limits Cash Real Problems

Author:Gina Rinehart

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