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  • That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical naturehave been introduced.

    -Anonymous
      Scientific  American, 2  Jan.

  • For the first time, we have been able to reach an Kennedy agreement which can limit the dangers of this age.

    -John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
      On the ratificationof a treaty to limit nuclear testing,7 Oct.

  • There is a definite limit to the length of time a composer can go on writing in one dance rhythm. This limit is obviously reached by Ravel toward the end of LaValse and toward the beginning of Bole  ro.

    - Constant Lambert
      Music Ho!

  • The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

    - Mordecai Richler
    Quoted in Time (Canadian edition), 31 May1971.

  • You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision† He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitnot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.

    - George P(ratt) Shultz
      Of Ronald Reagan.Turmoil andTriumph.

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