When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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