America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

classic quote by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

quote by Alan Turing
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

quote by Olin Miller
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One True Thing

one true thing
I take seriously
I go after it
sharpening it up
come rain or come shine
even if nobody knows I care for it

I wouldn't even notice weather and season change
that much I concentrate on it

a bird spots me chirping
someday I'll be found in a warm sunshine

because
every star in the sky has no boundary
rain has no boundary to move
waves come toward me
I swim against them
I'll take my pace not to get tired, not to give up going further

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poem by Wabi Sabi
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

classic quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

quote by Justin Timberlake
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

quote by Maxwell Maltz
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No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.

quote by Charles Stewart Parnell
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The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

quote by Heinrich Himmler
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New Frontier

Yes were gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
Its just a dugout that my dad built
In case the reds decide to push the button down
Weve got provisions and lots of beer
The key word is survival on the new frontier
Introduce me to that big blonde
Shes got a touch of tuesday weld
Shes wearing ambush and a french twist
Shes got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
Shes got the right dynamics for the new frontier
Well I cant wait til I move to the city
til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Have you got a steady boyfriend
Cause honey Ive been watching you
I hear youre mad about brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
Hes an artist, a pioneer

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song performed by Steely Dan
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?

quote by Tom Hanks
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Mounting Shores

It is at such moments all times blend
and tomorrow and yesterday stand
divided on a faded boundary
a frontier of a lost rotation
This lost frontier of identity calls out to me
Like a far sailing boat waves to the lost soul
on the banks of a disappearing eternity painted by a river.

In my canvas I have portraits of diverse lands
When I sit in loneliness I am perturbed
by too much company of myself
Silence becomes louder voice and I seek desperately
for an unending hideout
from this sky limit vastness
of a unexpressed

I had never prepared for the passage of time
So this moment when I find myself
No longer young as my last song
I stand with nothingness of words

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poem by Aman Saa
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Stop well before

Patients have a limit;
Tolerance has a limit.
Beyond it, if you test
You would be hit back hard.
Better stop well before,
Not knowing the boundary.

Pleasing has a limit;
Yielding has a limit.
Beyond it, if you test,
You will be shown the door.
Better stop well before,
Not knowing the boundary.
17.10.2008

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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So Long

'you want your
coffee black or white/'
'white.' he answers

and your president?
'well after Obama'
he answers;
'i dont mind whether
he is black or white.'

'why? he has always
been white, ' I say

'Well, paradigm shift.
crossing that boundary
between white and black.
so long for us to cross
a boundary inside us.'

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Boundaries

They say there are boundaries
that we should not cross.
Boundaries of love
that if we step over
we find danger waiting there.
They say there
are rules of engagement,
to break them is taboo.
However when you cross
over into love’s territory
you find the rules of arbitration
mean nothing there.
We seek no silken thread
to mend fragile wings,
but strings to tug
at the coldest heart
as we step across the boundaries
of love’s beating heart.

8 September 2008

poem by David Harris
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Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

quote by Roy Ayers
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There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

quote by Jim Barksdale
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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

quote by Herbert Hoover
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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

quote by Edwin Louis Cole
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