Norton Juster Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
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A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
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We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
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I believe every childhood should be magical.
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
