Quotes with boundaries

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  • Bernard Bailyn The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Billy Collins Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
    Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bill Flores We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Albert Camus Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Plato Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cannon: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Beeban Kidron We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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