Lee Kuan Yew
was 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. (Lee Kuan Yew) [03/12/2018 14:45:32] 
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Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. (Lee Kuan Yew) [genius, right] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [think, decision, career] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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 that shes just called up to say she was alright. (Lee Kuan Yew) [wife, rang, mother] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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What is of consequence is I did my best. (Lee Kuan Yew) [consequence, best] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I have never been over-concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. If you are concerned with whether your rating will go up or down, then you are not a leader. You are just catching the wind... you will go where the wind is blowing. And that’s not what I am in this for. (Lee Kuan Yew) [opinion, polls, popularity] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [take, poll, people] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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, (Lee Kuan Yew) [biographies, people, think] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead (Lee Kuan Yew) [rest, wish] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana. (Lee Kuan Yew) [think] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement really should have their heads examined. (Lee Kuan Yew) [grave, feel, wrong] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead. (Lee Kuan Yew) [think, generation, will] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [worth, heart, soul] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [golf, will, take] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. (Lee Kuan Yew) [saying, right, purpose] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked. (Lee Kuan Yew) [rest, chinese, politics] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve. (Lee Kuan Yew) [provide, work, easy] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. (Lee Kuan Yew) [leader, vision, things] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way. (Lee Kuan Yew) [give] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one. (Lee Kuan Yew) [life, death, think] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I don’t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelled… But I’m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit. (Lee Kuan Yew) [changing, change, fashion] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. (Lee Kuan Yew) [competition, chinese, will] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life. (Lee Kuan Yew) [problems, nature, life] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Having an education is one thing, being educated is another. (Lee Kuan Yew) [education, thing, being] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. (Lee Kuan Yew) [fear, complacency, things] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [reasons, sentiment, life] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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 don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts. (Lee Kuan Yew) [matter, approach, problem] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [life, country, nothing] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. (Lee Kuan Yew) [rainbow, spirit, adventure] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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) [life, television, cinema] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline (Lee Kuan Yew) [want, reach, goals] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied. (Lee Kuan Yew) [life, measure, think] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. (Lee Kuan Yew) [life] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. (Lee Kuan Yew) [freedom, circumstances] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge. (Lee Kuan Yew) [human, being, needs] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been. (Lee Kuan Yew) [journey, knowing, where] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think. (Lee Kuan Yew) [often, today, remorse] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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