"Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement really should have their heads examined."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Retirement Quotes #Believe Quotes #Government Quotes

“We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.”
“Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.”
“They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.”
“Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.”

Source : Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.”
“Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.”
“Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.”
“Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.”

Source : "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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