If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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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.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will have no talent.
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