Norton Juster Quotes
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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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
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The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.
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Our experience is that many people manage to give up for a while and then suffer a relapse.
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
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Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
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Stay around for me. Out do everyone. Sometimes I catch them. Stay around for me.
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Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.
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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.
