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“I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper and flourish.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

“But for a very small number of people, what we stood for could easily have done a great deal of good for Malaysia and established it for many centuries to come as a stable and viable multiracial nation. ... Kinship and feelings for one another cannot be legislated out by a political decision.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret