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"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions..." »Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
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"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof." »Thomas Fuller
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"For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before." »Jerome Seymour Bruner
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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." »William H. Borah
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"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers." »Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
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"How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals." »Clifford Truesdell
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"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty." »John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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