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Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
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There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.
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you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.
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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
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Freedom is not a license for chaos,
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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What you can do is often a matter of what you will do.
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Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason.
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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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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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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults.
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To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
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Rhyme and reason answer all problems
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Many of the things which can never be, often are.
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And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
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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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For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre
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Every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.
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Don't worry," Milo replied; "I'll just wrap one up for later," and he folded his napkin around "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.
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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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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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But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
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People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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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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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."-Tock — Norton Juster
He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing near by stopped and rushed home to be with his family.
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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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EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
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You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
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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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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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I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.
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You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
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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 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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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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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun, suggested the duke.
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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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changes are so frightening.
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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
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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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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
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They never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for
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Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.- Humbug — Norton Juster
it seemed a great wonder that the world, which was so large, could sometimes feel so small and empty.
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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 is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?
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