"Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.Â You can say a lot of things.Â You can write books about him, damning him.Â So long as it is not a libel, go ahead."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

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“The playful search for beauty.”

Source : Eva Zeisel, Margaret Carney (1999). “Lost Molds and Found Dinnerware: Rediscovering Eva Zeisel's Hallcraft : New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York : February 11, 1999-September 9, 1999”
“Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.”
“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.”
“I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.”
“Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.”
“Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.”

Source : John Balguy (1790). “Twenty-one sermons on the following subjects ... viz”, p.127
“No one who is being himself is going to be approved of all the time. The whole world could love you, but if you do not love yourself, you would not even notice. The opposite is also true - the whole world could disapprove of you, but if you love yourself, you would not even notice. Accept yourself within you and the entire world becomes totally acceptable.”

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