#limits

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. ↗

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. ↗

— Jim Costa

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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ↗

— Andre Norton

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It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. ↗

— Diana Cooper

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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits. ↗