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Lee Kuan Yew Quotes: I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.
         

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.


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If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline



If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.



A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.



Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.



Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.



Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.





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Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.



And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

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I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'




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