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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Imagination

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When a person looks at a simple pile of rocks and envisions a grand cathedral, the rocks stop being just random stones and become the foundation for something meaningful. This shows how imagination can transform ordinary things into extraordinary possibilities by giving them new purpose.

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