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Quotes About Limitation

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of
~ Aldous Huxley
No podemos permitir que la ciencia destruya su propia obra. Por esto limitamos tan escrupulosamente el alcance de sus investigaciones.
~ Aldous Huxley
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
~ Aleister Crowley
The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
~ Aleister Crowley
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
La vie n'est pas assez grande pour y faire entrer tout ce que le désir peut imaginer.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-
~ Alessandro Baricco
Tell him your parents have strictly forbidden you to play for anything but nuts.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.
~ Donald McCaig
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
~ Donald O. Clifton
Pigeon, your wings are no good.
~ Donald Revell
the competitive exclusion principle.
~ Donella H. Meadows
At any given time, the input that is most important to a system is the one that is most limiting.
~ Donella H. Meadows
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
~ Dorothy Parker
Time, like gravity, was a barrier thrown up by an unyielding universe. Mankind had always railed against both of these barriers, forever fantasizing about their eventual defeat.
~ Douglas E. Richards
And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.
~ Douglas E. Richards
To a 2D being, there is no up and down, just side to side. No matter how hard they try, they can't pry their eyes or bodies from the page.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The easiest way for you to make sense of this is to imagine that you're a two-dimensional being. A being flatter than the flattest pancake, living on the surface of a giant, empty, plastic box. As a 2D being, you can only see the surface of the
~ Douglas E. Richards
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
~ Douglas E. Richards
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony
And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!
~ Dr. Seuss
Fear is the highest fence.
~ Dudley Nichols
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
~ Albert Camus