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"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"

"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."

"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"

"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."

"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"

"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."

"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."

"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system."

"Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure."

"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."
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