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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."

"This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present."

"It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

"Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music had breathed to him its message, to him alone amongst these ordinary folk, whispered its gentle secret. And now the star. Across the shoulders of these people a voice was speaking to him in a tongue that he alone could understand"."

"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him."
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