No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.
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.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.
it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.
Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
When we stop playing God, God can play through us.
AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency.