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Quote by John Cage
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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If this word “music” is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. – John Cage

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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. – John Cage

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If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison

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Thats the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, its a painful, difficult search within. – Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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