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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.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Lee Kuan Yew
Age: 91 †
Born: 1923
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: March 23
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Singaporean Politician
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Republic of Singapore
LKY
Harry Lee
MM Lee
Li Guangyao
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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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I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.
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We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.
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China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.
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For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.
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Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead
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If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.
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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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You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.
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I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
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I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
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One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
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I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
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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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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 make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
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I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.
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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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As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
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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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