Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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• Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

  Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948)

  • Motivation & Goals
  • Time

• Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Le Petit Prince (1943)

  • Children
  • Maturity

• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  Terre des Hommes (1939)

  • Technology

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