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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.
Norton Juster
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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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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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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
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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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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.
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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
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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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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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