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Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.
Thomas JeffersonRead
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
Lindsey VonnRead
Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive _x000D_ I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
Jay-ZRead
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EpictetusRead
Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
EpictetusRead
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
Haruki MurakamiRead
We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
Barack ObamaRead
God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.
Pope FrancisRead
I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits
Paulo CoelhoRead
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
Wendell BerryRead
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
Marcus AureliusRead
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
Albert EinsteinRead
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
SocratesRead
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
Sri AurobindoRead
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
Sam WaltonRead
I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!
Swami VivekanandaRead
A child needs freedom within limits.
Maria MontessoriRead
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
Viktor E. FranklRead
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
Hudson TaylorRead
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
Alvin TofflerRead
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
Margaret SangerRead

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