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Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its development, or whether it is educated and involved in the ways of the world - more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward looking.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: will, looking, world, peace

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At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: end-of-the-day, better, society, day
Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: country, never, money, you
It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: long, you, me, life
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: others, people, work, hard-work
I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.
— Lee Kuan Yew
Tags: whatever, house, i-am, freedom
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