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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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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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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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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.
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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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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.
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