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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

French inventor.

Born September 25th, 1725 in Void-Vacon. [ref]

Died October 2nd, 1804 at 79 years old in Paris.

Occupations
engineer, military engineer, thermophysicist

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche