"If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it."

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Source : The Straits Times, August 17, 2004.

Lee Kuan Yew

#Years Quotes #Students Quotes #Disorder Quotes

“As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.”
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
“With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.”
“Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.”
“Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.”
“One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."”
“What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.”
“We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.”

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