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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

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Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

- John Cage | Art and the Artist Quotes

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Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

- John Cage | Music Quotes

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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

- John Cage | Other Side Quotes

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We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.

- John Cage | One Day Quotes

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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

- John Cage | Courage Quotes

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Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.