The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....
Noam ChomskyTags: opinion control 1998 acceptable-opinion debate limit lively-debate obedience obedient passive passivity
There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
Napoleon HillTags: knowledge mind limit napoleon-hill
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
Jonathan PriceBut man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
Henry David ThoreauI ground my teeth. "Just when I thought I was getting a handle on this whole Dark One/demon lord/imp thing, you go and throw knockers into the mix. I'm going to have to request that you stop, Adrian. I'm about at my limit of how many impossible things I can believe before breakfast."
He flashed a heart-stoppingly roguish grin at me, his dimples just about bringing me to my knees. "Your middle name wouldn't be Alice, would it?" he asked.
"No, it's Diane, and you're no White Rabbit, so let's just stop pretending we're in Wonderland, OK?"
He laughed and pointed across the tiny square at our destination. I watched him for a moment, seeing a glimpse of the charming, charismatic man he must have been before the demon lord cursed him and leeched away all the softer emotions.
Tags: love alice-in-wonderland comedy vampires limit rabbit-hole
Any negotiation has a limit.
Otherwise, war is irrelevant.
Tags: war limit negotiation irrelevant
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George EliotIn learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.
Rabindranath TagoreTags: words liberty learning freedom beauty joy literature language poem law liberation spirit wings limit marvel grammar caprice first-step hidden-reason pedestal rules-of-grammar
I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.
Frank KermodeTags: limit
Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
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