"If you are a troublemakerâ€¦itâ€™s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for â€“ a thoroughly destructive force â€“ we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

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“I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.”
“Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.”
“Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.”
“I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.”

Source : Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.
“If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.”
“When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?”

Source : 'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)
“Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.”
“I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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