One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
("The Little Prince")
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.
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There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity for where will the stone go, once it is quarried.
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The greatness of a craft consists firstly in how it brings comradeship to men.
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