Margret Polakis

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“Representatives,”
Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

Todd Burpo
“Sometimes I wonder, what do people do when they have no extended family and no church? In times of crisis, where does their support come from?”
Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Diana Wynne Jones
“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”
Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

Jostein Gaarder
“It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.”
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

Norton Juster
“What a shame," signed the Dodecahedron. "They're so very useful. 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."

"That's absurd," objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions.

"That may be true," he acknowledged, "but it's completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
tags: math

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