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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
Norton Juster
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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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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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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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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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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
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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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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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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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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 way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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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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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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