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

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Past

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. – Jean Rostand

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Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring. – Sharon Hudacek, “A Daybook for Nurses”

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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I dont think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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