“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA <br class="br">Maps of Meaning
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