"...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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Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Norton Juster

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“The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.”

Source : "Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156, 184". Judicial opinion, 1953.
“This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.”
“She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So don't get mad and dis her reputation Callin' her a floozy, any conversation. Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her. But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!”
“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.”
“The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”
“Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.”
“But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.”
“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”

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