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Quote by Virgil Thomson

“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”

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Virgil Thomson was an influential American composer whose works bridged the gap between classical and popular music. His music had a profound impact on the music world. more

“Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.”

Want Stills Ideas Different Hard Government Aspect Interfere Emphasis

Author:Mike Huckabee

“My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.”

Asks Dark Sitting Evening Shirts Worn Lamps Worn Out Sitting Alone Overcoat Alone In The Dark

Author:William Tyndale

“One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.”

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Book:Conversations with Rita Dove

Source: Conversations with Rita Dove

“In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.”

Economic Billions Disaster Weather Damage

Author:Jeff Goodell

“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”

Ifs Should Book Whole Shows Language Beauty

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”

Objects Persuasion Oratory Power Of Persuasion

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.”

Men Doe Science Accounts Bread Live By Informative

Book:It All Goes Together: Selected Essays

Source: It All Goes Together: Selected Essays

“Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.”

World Life Is Knowing This World Being Content

Author:K. D. Lang

“People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.”

People Way Hard Artist Creative Fields Standing Out Herds Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

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