"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

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"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

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"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture."

Peter Wright, British Celebrity

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"I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it."

Sean Bean, English Actor

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"Limits are very important."

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

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"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."

Rose E. Bird, American Chief Justice

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"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

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"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."

Bobby Heenan, American Entertainer

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"Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."

Robert Smith, English Musician

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"I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

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"Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information."

Politics

"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."

Humor

"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."

Faith

"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

Power

"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

Reality

"The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings."

Time

"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."

Knowledge

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Travel

"There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself."

Emotion

"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."

Reflection