"For reasons of sentiment, I would like part……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"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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85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the…
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Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something…
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability…
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been,…
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Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my…
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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe…
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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in…
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative…
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence…
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But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that…
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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