#threshold

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#beyond #experience #immediate #induce #odd

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. ↗

— Howard Carter

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When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold. ↗

— David R. Gergen

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We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. ↗

— James Larkin

#inspiration #movement #new #newer #now

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

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After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. ↗

— Joy Page

#born #ecstasy #eternity #filled #finding

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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