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The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.

Don't limit yourself because you are a woman because you can do exactly the same that a guy could do.

Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

It's what I've learned over the years that has pushed me beyond limits.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

In the network's mind there are no limits.

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

You never know the limit of a human being.

There are many laws that have been important to our customers in recent years, including the increase in retirement contribution limits and the reduction in taxes on capital gains and dividends.

We only put limits on it because we have a limited physical space. It's usually floor to ceiling art.

Who will decide the quantity of our deterrence? The agreement limits the size of India's deterrence.

While mobile handsets now being marketed directly to young kids do limit the numbers that can be called, you won't catch a teenager carrying a Mickey Mouse phone, ... Nor can these phones restrict the time of day when the phone is used. Parent Patrol(TM) can be used with regular phones and the limits are easy to modify so parents can loosen the rules during summer holidays, for example, and tighten them during exam times.

We have gone to the limits of what this system can do, which is way beyond the original design and requirements. That's really allowed us to squeeze every ounce of performance out of both systems, spacecraft and propulsion.

We have been discussing story lines that extend the 'Saw' franchise to new limits and beyond. The most important element of any franchise is remaining true to the roots of its success. We believe that we are developing a script that is certain to please the 'Saw' franchise's core fans while adding fresh, terrifying and unimaginable new twists to the 'Saw' saga.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

Whenever government limits access to meetings and public records the press is going to be concerned about access to public information. We only miss our rights when they are taken away from us.

This will all eventually have to be dealt with and confronted. It will take people a long time to accept that we are at the limits of growth.

There has to be a reasonable budget policy that limits the countries in their spending.

The reason we set limits in the first place is because it has an impact on everyone else. Changing it will change the illegality, but it doesn't change the impact. Immigration affects labor markets and social institutions.

We're near the cap. That limits the things you can do.

We keep working hard like we did tonight, stick with the game for 60 minutes and we are going to be successful. We are staying positive and offensively there are no limits to this team.

In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

Limits are very important.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

The sky is not the limit, only Heaven's the limit, and there's no limit in Heaven!

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

I never allowed my fear to limit me.

We were trying to see what the limits were on guys. That's one of the things you do. He's been in good shape.

I have reached a limit in my work.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Women's snowboarding has progressed a lot. The younger riders are really pushing the limits of technical tricks.

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

Writing a cross-platform worm is difficult because it limits you to functions that are available on both operating systems. You have to also code the virus in assembly to make it work without relying on any OS-specific function.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Whether or not one agrees with that, that's where he is coming from. What will have to happen, is the issue will have to be studied. I think in the long run we will see speed limits down here.

With Tyree's speed and my inability to block, it kind of limits the interior blocking to some degree, ... From the shotgun, all he has to do is read the defensive end on running plays and the free safety on passing plays.

What's limiting us on the upside is the double-digit gains we saw in 2003. What limits us to the downside is that the economy continues to strengthen, although concerns about the job market persist.

Unfortunately Mr. Burke lost his life in this crash and others were injured. I am satisfied that the officer's driving fell well within the limits prescribed by the criminal law.

We're hoping that some kind of limited liability agreement can be worked out with the government that limits the liability for Good Samaritans who take in these evacuees. We don't anticipate that there would be a lot of lawsuits out of that, based on the fact that people are voluntarily helping out, but that doesn't mean that still won't occur in some rare instances.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

With the Open Sky, there will be no limits for airlines, whether limits of nationality, of flight origin, of passenger capacity or limits of airports.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, / Beneath the good how far - but far above the great.

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

Berlusconi's goal is to change the equal-access law. If he can remove the limits on the electronic media, he can use his much greater wealth to his advantage.

Complete 80-85. Don't set limits for yourself. The ones we really want to eliminate are the ones he completes to the other team. Then show the consistency to stay at a high level.

We are a promoted side and while some may be excited by that challenge, others will think that we'll go straight back down. They wouldn't take the risk, so that drastically limits our parameters. We may be priced out of transfers in other cases, so it could be a frustrating summer to some extent.

With freedom of speech comes responsibility. And one has to be sensitive to the people within a society, so there are limits to what can be said.

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not.

I've been carrying one of these keys for two weeks now and purposely abusing it to test the limits of how durable they really are.

The tools are the weak spot, That limits its appeal to a fairly hard-core group.

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

To define a miracle as a violation or suspension or overriding of natural laws is already to presuppose what nature is like (namely, that nature is a closed causal nexus governed by inviolable rules). It is also to impose prior limits on divine action.

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.

We're talking about many, many hundreds of pieces of equipment over the limits in the armor-combat-vehicle category.

We seem to be continuing to defy these natural limits of the economic cycle and we should be able to push forward at a decent pace in the second half without risking inflation,

Isn't it true that there's nothing in AOL's contract with Microsoft that limits its ability to give its customers Navigator?

The smaller surface area limits oxygen. Oxygen can enter only on the surface.

The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.

There are limits when free speech becomes bigotry. We are trying to set limits while still protecting free speech.

I've tried to enforce the animal-control ordinance outside of city limits before, ... It doesn't work. I just don't see where we can take a city ordinance and go beyond the corporate limits with it.