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Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Lee Kuan Yew
Age: 91 †
Born: 1923
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: March 23
Autobiographer
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Republic of Singapore
LKY
Harry Lee
MM Lee
Li Guangyao
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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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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
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Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.
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Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
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We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.
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I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.
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Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
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Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.
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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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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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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 way you can govern a Chinese society.
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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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For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.
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There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.
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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 don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
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As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
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Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.
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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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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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