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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#done #fear #figure #get #haven

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#avoid #being #concept #i #learned

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. ↗

— Brad Thor

#another #equaled #freedom #freedom of speech #i

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. ↗

— Brad Thor

#above #angered #any #anything #bothered

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#alive #aright #better #creature #dead

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#evil #hacking #root #striking #thousand

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#another #break #government #i #injustice

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

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