"Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Hurt Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.”

Source : Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.23, Penguin
“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
“He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.”

Source : Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage
“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.”

Source : "CIA Chief: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher" by Spencer Ackerman, www.wired.com. March 15, 2012.
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Source : "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.
“Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.”
“To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.”

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