A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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- The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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- I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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