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Up Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
- I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say…
- 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…
- My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined…
- 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…
- 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…
- The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are…
- 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…
- Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
- 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…
- I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure…
- 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…
- At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
- Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you…
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