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«Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.»
«People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.»
Author: Richard Thalheimer
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
exceed, expectations, passed, pleasantly, psychological, reaction, somehow, threshold, thresholds
«Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.»
Author: W. Eugene Smith
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Photography
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«It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
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chickens, fox, hen, legal, Legal Advice, threshold, unprofessional, visit
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Religion
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«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.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.»
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude»
Author: Thomas Merton
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age of, crowds, determined, lament, lamenting, solitary, threshold, thresholds
«Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.»
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