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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

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.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.