If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood...(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together 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-Exupéry

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