Quotes with limit

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  • Francis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
    Original: Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
    Latin
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Oscar Wilde What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles M. Schwab When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ellen Key When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Janice Galloway You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.
    Gewoon blijven adem halen (1989)
    Janice Galloway
    Scottish writer (1955 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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