104 Quotes About Singapore
- Author Goh Keng Swee
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The serene confidence with which Western journalists and liberal academics prescribe solutions to our [Singapore's] problems is a source of constant wonder to us.
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- Author Kim Da-Jeong
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Turn off the light!Who?Not me,but you!
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- Author Osohave
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Our company, launched in 2018 in Singapore, Osohave.com is the leading platform for online businesses serving suppliers and buyers around the world meet each other through our simple tool.
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- Author Cyril Wong
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Soon we were downloading ourselvesinto laptops, phones or pads, freerthan we had hoped,floating centrifugally across the Internetto swim alongside forgottenselfies, spam emails and porn
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- Author Kirstin Chen
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The hawker center was a large, open-air hall that housed four dozen independently owned food stalls, each specializing in a single signature dish, from barbecued stingray coated in fiery, pungent shrimp paste to Hokkien mee, a mixture of yellow and rice noodles, fried with eggs and then braised in rich, savory prawn stock.
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- Author Wong Souk Yee
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White froth bubbles from the mouth of Chow Sze Teck. The airconditioner is still running and the room is dark. Slumped over the mahogany desk in his study, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Housing is, as always, immaculately dressed.
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- Author S.R. Nathan
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Americans, particularly in a group, are often perceived overseas as loud, even crass. Perhaps they simply have no worries about being overheard. For them, the basic assumption is that nothing you say will offend anyone. We Asians think that opening our mouths always risks offending somebody. Both sides are in danger of being misunderstood as a consequence.
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- Author Lee Kuan Yew
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Men are not born equal in either physical or mental capacity. But a socialist believes that society as a whole will benefit, and there will be more happiness for more people, if all are given equal opportunities for education and advancement regardless of class or property.
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- Author William Gibson
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Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a night of high buggery - had, when it proved difficult to suppress, a subway station dropped on top of it.
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