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.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Teach them →
Always pass on good advice →
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
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The character of your mind →
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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War is not wicked →
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Excellence is a habit →
We are what we repeatedly do, therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit
~ Aristotle
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Look at that →
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
~ Edgar Mitchell
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Think for oneself →
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Hardly seems worth doing →
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Straight-forward kindness →
“Straight forward kindess” works in a world of endless human train wrecks.
~ Hugh MacLeod
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What is a cynic? →
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
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