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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," h...  
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly...  
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which ...  
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing ...  
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with...  
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contempla...   Imagination
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the h...  
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him ...  
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is ...  
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome...  
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more po...  
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in h...  
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.  
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and ...  
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in ...  
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential ...  
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.  
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other...   Life
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other ...  
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward ...  
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direc...  
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same dir...   Love
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When...  
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?  
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the ...  
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that bin...  
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but whe...  
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.  
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.  
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but...  
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What a...  
The one thing that matters is the effort.  
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.  
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of fli...  
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of crea...  
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.  
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its ston...  
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.  
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my an...  
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.  
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy o...  
You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are respons...