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Lee Kuan Yew

"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."

Source : The Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'”

Source : "The Meanings of the Selfie" by James Franco, www.nytimes.com. December 26, 2013.
“In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.”
“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
“My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.”
“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.”
“They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.”
“I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.”
“I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.”

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