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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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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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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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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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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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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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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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 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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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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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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