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Norton Juster: Citations en anglais
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Variante: So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
Norton Juster
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Variante: 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.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Variante: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Variante: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Variante: …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.
“… I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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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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The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
