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India is a nation of unfulfilled greatness. Its potential has lain fallow, under used.
Lee Kuan Yew1923–2015From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000 (2000)
What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.
Simone Weil1909–1943“Human Personality” (1943), in Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 59
Fashion’s not about looking back. It’s always about looking forward.
Anna Wintourborn 1949In R.J. Cutler’s 2009 documentary film The September Issue.
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.
TGTemple Grandinborn 1947Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition).Westminster, MD, USA: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006.
So far as I am acquainted with the principles & Doctrines of Free Masonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.
George Washington1732–1799Draft of a letter to the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of the State of Maryland (8 November 1798)
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman1946–2016Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son” by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
If the player isn’t tricked into believing that the world is real, then there’s no point in making the game.
Hideo Kojimaborn 1963A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games (2012)
- Entertainment
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Martina Navratilovaborn 1956Queer Notions, A Fabulous Collection of Gay and Lesbian Wit and Wisdom, 1996, p. 18.
I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Age
- Luck
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Lou Gehrig1903–1941Farewell speech on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, Yankee Stadium (4 July 1939)
- Baseball
- Luck
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)
- Change
- Freedom
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.
Malala Yousafzaiborn 1997Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly, New York (12 July 2013)
- Change
- Education
The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
Harold Macmillan1894–1986Speech to the Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town (3 February 1960)
- Change
- Politics
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIn context
“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIn context