"Life is not just eating, drinking, television and……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"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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85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew has 85 quotes on this site.
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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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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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