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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Norton Juster

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
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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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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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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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