"Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people donâ€™t understand this"

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”
“We'll blast them back into the stone ages!”
“Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.”
“"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality - one nation, indivisible - or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others."”
“Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But hereâ€™s the thingâ€¦the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.”
“The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press
“There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.”
“A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.”

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