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Norton Juster

"Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him."

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.175, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Norton Juster

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“I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.”
“We canâ€™t heal what we donâ€™t feel. We canâ€™t have a future until we fully inhabit our present. Itâ€™s like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people donâ€™t live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present.”
“Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling. Sometimes, it's under a bridge or down a stairwell or hallway. Sometimes, it's pitch-black or incredibly warm or in full daylight on a rooftop. I did a shoot recently for a clothing line, Somedays Lovin. I got to stand on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean and play my guitar basically all day. It felt endlessly powerful.”
“They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 26, 2017
“NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges”
“I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.”
“I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.”
“The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.”

Source : "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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