If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stit…

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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