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We need not destroy the past. It is gone. - John Cage

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

Other quotes by John Cage

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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. – 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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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum

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Past

The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano. – Jackson Browne

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If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of whats gone wrong, then you have to change your government. – George Osborne

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Change

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. – Graham Greene

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Failure

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way its supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck. – Claud Cockburn

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