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Jiang relays his wife's rule that a million dollars is the threshold after which financial gain begins attracting demands, cuts, and pressure from others.
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Threshold
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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"it because i want to build a legacy for my children and that's what matters to me okay so i think that as long..."
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"you want but after a million dollars people are gonna come knocking your door and ask you and ask you where's my cut okay..."
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"...is in you, inborn, the power that counsels, keeper of the threshold of your ascent. This is the principle on which your merit may..."
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"...war, just now have felt my free will for a better threshold. Thus, you heard the earthquake and the pious spirits throughout the mountain..."
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"...blockade is an escalation path. And it is now crossing three thresholds. Number one, it's widening the war within the region. So, of course,..."
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"...the blockade, the U.S. blockade, is now going to be crossing thresholds with China. And we need to understand that when you threaten a..."
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"...one man left, and then I saw her, clinging to Vestas' threshold, hiding, in silence, tucked away. Helen of Argos. Glare of the fires..."
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"...Now, I want to be clear. 70 % is over the threshold, but to get from 70 to nuclear grade, it's a flip of..."
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"...at his shrine in Pitho when Agamemnon strode across the rocky threshold, asking the oracle for advice. The start of the tidal waves of..."
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"...father, great godlike Achilles, as old as I am, past the threshold of deadly old age. No doubt the countrymen round him plague him..."
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"...fight for your life and find an armed foe on the threshold of your royal tent. This is the war which we, the youth..."
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"...there would be a good chance that Japan would cross the threshold of developing, for example, nuclear weapons if they have to maintain their..."
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