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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Educator
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Children
Softly
Beneath
Spread
Everywhere
Everyday
Dreams
Feet
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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