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“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery · Men

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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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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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.

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