Threshold Quotes - Page 10

• Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, People, Twenties

  Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Should, Ambiguity

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Way, Pushing

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

  Bill Gates

  Drug, Surveillance, Information

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

  David Louis Edelman

  Agency, Sea, Sea Change

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• Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

  Ruth Benedict

  Civilization, Society, Analysis

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I'm doing something I do like to take it to the limit. I've got a high ceiling. A wide threshold for seeing what those boundaries are for myself. I'm very resilient inside. I find things that I like and do and boy, I do like to stick to them. I'm not necessarily a guy who gets addicted to more of certain things, but if I find something I like to do, I like to stick to it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Boys, Guy, Ceilings

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Elephants, House

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• Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

  Helen McCloy

  Religious, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

  Judith Jamison

  Dance, Dancer

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• My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

  Jill Tweedie

  Change, Time, Children

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

  Christiana Figueres

  Climate Change, Crosses, Millions

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• Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

  Derrick Jensen

  Running, Fighting, Giving

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.359, Seven Stories Press

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• The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Dream, College, Years

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• I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

  John Simm

  Kids, Bored, Rooms

  "John Simm: this much I know" by Olly Richards, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, People, Burden

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

  Karl Kraus

  Running, Years, Cleaning

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

  Karl Kraus

  Dirty, Home, Psychology

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg . . . I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Party, Men, Rights

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• In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Looks, Too Much

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Successful, President

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• Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Wise, Spiritual, Mother

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