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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same and perfectly understand it - without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Well my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know my lords: that where law ends tyranny begins.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

An unlimited power to tax involves necessarily the power to destroy.

Well I think by definition all power has limits.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality in the strict sense setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

I know my limitations and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Clarity clarity surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world A limited limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Science fiction outside of poetry is the only literary field which has no limits no parameters whatsoever.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.