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mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly." "How do you see something that isn't there?"... "sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"..."
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sight
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they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for
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seeing
slowness
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
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What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo,unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity. "Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not."
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468f97c
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I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.
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Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason.
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4635d2e
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Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago.
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727ad11
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So many things are possible just as long as you know they aren't impossible.
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I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock."
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Ali zar u buci nema i dobrih zvukova?
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As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help."
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i dokle god je odgovor pravi, koga briga sto je pitanje krivo?
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Tako kad nema bas nista, uvijek imas i vise nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomican sistem.
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Sto vise zelis, to manje dobivas, a sto manje dobivas, sve vise imas.
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Very serious, very serious," the gateman said, shaking his head also. "You can't get in without a reason." He thought for a moment and then continued. "Wait a minute; maybe I have an old one you can use." He took a battered suitcase from the gatehouse and began to rummage busily through it, mumbling to himself, "No ... no ... no ... this won't do ... no ... h-m-m-m ... ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion o..
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What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew."
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The"
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EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST.
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I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The Humbug dropped his needle and stared in disbelief while Milo and Tock began to back away slowly. "Don't try to leave," he ordered, with a menacing sweep of his arm, "for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job." "But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who su..
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Does everyone here grow the way you do?' puffed Milo when he had caught up. 'Almost everyone,' replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. 'Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that.' 'What happens to them?' insisted Milo. 'Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,' said Alec th..
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you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.
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I'm the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses
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4. Confusion in the Market Place Indeed it was, for as they approached, Milo could see crowds of people pushing and shouting their way among the stalls, buying and selling, trading and bargaining. Huge wooden-wheeled carts streamed into the market square from the orchards, and long caravans bound for the four corners of the kingdom made ready to leave. Sacks and boxes were piled high waiting to be delivered to the ships that sailed the Sea ..
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Ali to je samo velika olovka", usprotivio se Uholaz i u nju kucnuo stapom za setnju. "To je istina", suglasio se Matemagicar, "ali kad se jednom naucis njome sluziti, onda nema kraja onom sto mozes uciniti."
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Sve se na koncu svede na nista.
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f9cd8bb
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Bolje upasti u rijec nego u bunar.
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Kad god se nasmijesis, radost se oko tebe siri poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tuzan, nitko nigdje ne moze biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god naucis nesto novo, citav svijet postaje mnogo bogatiji.
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Ali sto cemo s Dvorcem u oblacima? Mozda je on ipak vazan." (...) "Neka ga vjetar nosi", odgovorila je Smisla. "I sretan mu put", dodala je Mjera, "jer bez obzira koliko bio lijep, on je ipak samo zatvor."
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations,
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Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is. ' 'Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality,' Mili remarked. 'That will happen only when you brin..
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The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have
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Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are? it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't--and I don't care at all about where I'm not. - Alec
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For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.
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Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical--and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky."
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For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre" --
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Norton Juster |
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You're ... in ... the ... Dol ... drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away."
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For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre"
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children-s-literature
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Slowly at first, and then in a rush, more people came to settle here and bought with them new ways and new sounds, some very beautiful and some less so. But everyone was so busy with the things that had to be don that they scarcely had time to listen at all. And, as you know, a sound which is not heard disappears forever and is not to be found again. People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they mad..
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.
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Before long they saw in the distance the towers and flags of Dictionopolis sparkling in the sunshine, and in a few moments they reached the great wall and stood at the gateway to the city. "A-H-H-H-R-R-E-M-M," roared the gateman, clearing his throat and snapping smartly to attention. "This is Dictionopolis, a happy kingdom, advantageously located in the Foothills of Confusion and caressed by gentle breezes from the Sea of Knowledge. Today, ..
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Norton Juster |
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We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.
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Norton Juster |
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The Under-secretary of Understanding.
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Norton Juster |
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Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards." "I didn't know that words grew on trees," said Milo timidly. "Where did you think they grew?" shouted the earl irritably. A small crowd began to gather to see the little boy who didn't know that letters grew on trees. "I didn't know they grew at all," admitted Milo even more timidly. Several people shook their heads sadly. "..
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Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.
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