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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Hyperstition

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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(popular paraphrase), The Wisdom of the Sands, page 244, New York: Hardcourt, Brace, and Company, 1950

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