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“The World is for All”
― Sun Yat-Sen

“We become what we do.”
― Chiang Kai-shek

“When the moon reaches fullness, it begins to wane.
月滿則虧”
― Sima Qian, The Grand Scribe's Records: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China

“I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.”
― Konrad Adenauer

“please delete this quote to avoid spreading misinformation. These were not Mangione’s words. This quote is a part of someone else’s quote he cited in his review of Industrial Society and Its Future. He prefaced the quote with “A take I found online that I think is interesting.”
― Anonymous

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
― Ross Perot

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
― Richard Nixon

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
― Idi Amin

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”
― Otto von Bismark

“It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.”
― Deng Xiaoping

“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”
― Lee Kuan Yew

“Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
― Lee Kuan Yew

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
― James Madison

“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.”
― John Jay, The Federalist Papers