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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
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Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
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That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.
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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
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