He checked his pocket watch. A gift from three old friends. Crafted for him by Patek Philippe & Company in 1933 with a movement as complicated and precise as the dance of the stars that he had counted for millennia.
“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
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“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
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“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
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O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
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