What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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About Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He is best known as the author of The Little Prince.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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He who would travel happily must travel light.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

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I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

—Mitch Hedberg

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

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I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water is too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, the schools are so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

—Stewart Udall

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