I have read Lee Kuan Yew’s book from third world to first world, I am yet to find a page where talks about building malls and churches. But he has mentioned education, public healthcare, investment in industry, keeping consumption expenditure down. The fundamentals must be respected.
at the lab i acidentally dropped a reagent that costs more than me, my entire family tree, my neighborhood and possibly my entire state combined. it didnt break. thankfully. but for one moment i felt the fear of God that only an illiterate rural medieval peasant would feel
I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”