Quotes with threshold

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  • Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Anna H. Shaw Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
    Anna H. Shaw
     
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  • Rabindranath Tagore I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
    Source: Zwervende vogels
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
    Source: Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
    Source: The Decay of Lying (1889)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Richard Thalheimer People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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  • Alan Kay Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Dr. Jerome Brunner We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
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  • J. A. Primo De Rivera We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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