Antoine De Saint-exupery

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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.
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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.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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