"I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, and then bullying my way to the top, that is the conclusion I've come to."

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Source : "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

Lee Kuan Yew

#Bullying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Reading Quotes

“One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.”

Source : Mark Batterson (2013). “All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life”, p.47, Zondervan
“I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.”

Source : "Writers attack 'overrated' Anglo-American literature at Jaipur festival" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”
“I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.”
“I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.”
“Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.”
“You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
“I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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