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John Cage

"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."

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"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."

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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."

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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."

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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

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A.E. Samaan

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

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"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."

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"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""
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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."
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"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."
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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
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"When we separate music from life we get art."
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"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."
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"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."
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