"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."

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Words carry weight, and Virgil Thomson's insight into wisdom is no exception. It serves as a gentle reminder that amidst the chaos of modern life, timeless wisdom still holds the power to guide our decisions and clarify our values.

About Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".

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"Let your mind alone, and see what happens."

— Virgil Thomson
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"I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played."

— Virgil Thomson
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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

— Virgil Thomson
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"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."

— Art Garfunkel
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"Wisdom principle 96 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 36."

— Virginia Woolf
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"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

— Khalil Gibran
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"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."

— Brigham Young
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