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I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Lee Kuan Yew
Age: 91 †
Born: 1923
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: March 23
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Harry Lee
MM Lee
Li Guangyao
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One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
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Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
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Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?
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Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.
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What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.
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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.
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I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.
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I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.
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I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.
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I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.
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If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.
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I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
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I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.
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The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.
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We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.
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If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.
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Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead
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Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.
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