"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, French Novelist

Work, People, Sea, Want

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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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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

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"I shall never again admire a merely brave man."

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"Flowers are so inconsistent!"

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