"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.”
“I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness”
“An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.”
“And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.”

Source : "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.
“I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say that it's absolutely unacceptable and ludicrous to suggest that women aren't funny anymore in 2016. It just makes you look like a dinosaur.”
“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”
“The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.”
“People are either born hosts or born guests.”

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