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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."


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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.



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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.



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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.



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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.



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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.



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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.



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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.



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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.





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