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“Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.”

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Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man... there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There's no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You're an American citizen first and foremost and that's it.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”

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Author:John Galt

“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.”

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Book:Sackett

Source: Sackett

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.”

Men Home Easy Common Practice Mankind Please Idle Ridicule Censure

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752