#is

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#breed #campbell #check #encouragement #got

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#calls #characteristic #endeavor #endure #face

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#avoid #comes #deal #easily #i

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#efficient #energy #energy sources #existing #forms

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#decisive #full #historical #leading #necessary

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#downside #each #fear #including #instead

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#capacity #commonwealth #constitution #created #exercise

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. ↗

— Jeremy Thorpe

#friends #greater #hath #his #lay

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#act #animal #box #comparison #does