"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.“
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"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
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"Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
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"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."
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