Morton Feldman Quotes
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
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There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
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Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
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...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
