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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

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It was by means of words we became subservient.

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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

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I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

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John Cage

John Cage

Born: September 5, 1912
Died: August 12, 1992 (aged 79)
Bio: John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist.
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