Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke
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Infinity has its limits.

Helene Lagerberg
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I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Corazon Aquino
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. -Mark Twain
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I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan
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There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Horace Mann
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. -Sir Francis Bacon
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan
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There were 85 of those signs from the city limits of Florence to Burlington. That's utterly ridiculous. -Ted Bushelman
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[Colon] should have known the limits. That's why he is a police officer.

Leticia Valle
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell
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We've been asked to look at limits on gray snapper, but we're not so inclined to do that. (Gray snapper) are very limited by temperature; a cold winter will eventually knock them back. -Larry Mckinney
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The smaller surface area limits oxygen. Oxygen can enter only on the surface.

Derrick Johnson
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Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Nolan Ryan
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This injury limits her function, making it impossible for her to jump, land and skate effectively and without risk of serious injury. -Jim Moeller
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It really limits the ability of the city to improve parks. We don't think that was the intent of the original amendment.

Bob Woods
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell
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Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train. -Greil Marcus
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It's always something new he gets an idea and we try to execute it the best we can but he's always pushing the limits of glass making.

Joe Decamp
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Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases. -Tom Lasorda
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I checked some at the Narrows on Monday, and they're getting them right off the beach down there. I also know of two guys who got two limits Monday right out in front of the (Point Defiance) boathouse.

Tom Mathews
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Term limits did have an effect. There was one less chair for them.

Brian Rothenberg
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Ohio has some of the highest campaign contribution limits in the country. -Keary Mccarthy
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We are catching fish, catching limits, but they have been running late. Everything is a little late. Normally by Valentine's they have kicked in big time, but we are having to hunt them.

Jane Gallenbach
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Teilhard De Chardin
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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