If any of you have read up on our first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, you would know that the man has had some famous lines. Some were inspiring, others were controversial and strangely prophetic.

But none was more memorable than his words in 1988. Before most of us were born. You can hear him say this here at 6:06.

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“And even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.”

As a Singaporean, this beats Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream", and even King George VI's first wartime broadcast (as featured in the 2010 movie, The King's Speech) hands down.

Say what you will about LKY, but that's true dedication right there.

Here are how we imagined other authors tackling a line as epic as this.

George R R Martin (Game of Thrones)

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Ser Harry felt them lower him into the cold ground. His mind wandered to the strange conversation with the man he had met at Braavos. “There is only one God, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death,” the cripple smirked. “Not today.”

Alternatively,

“Valar morghulis,” the priest said to him. All men must die. Ser Harry paused before acknowledging the holy man. “Valar dohaeris.” All men must serve.

J R R Tolkien

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Frodo looked up, eyes squinting as he struggled to make out the figure in the light. As quickly as it appeared, the white flash faded, falling the beast in an instant. “I come to back to you now, at the turn of the tide,” said Harry the White.

J K Rowling

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Dumbledore smiled."We're at Lim Chu Kang, you say? I think if you decided not to go back, you would be able to... let's say... board the train?" Harry paused. "The train? Where would it take me?" "On," said Dumbledore simply. "No," Harry decided. “ These are dark times we live in, and I must choose between what is easy and what is right." “Then you have go, Harry,” the old wizard laughed kindly. “Go.”

James Joyce

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Deafening silence. The smell of grass and concrete lingers. Six feet under. Unfinished business. - “Always hated Mandai.” Steady now. Keep calm. What is a coffin but a wooden box? Whispers. Heard a voice. - “I will get up.” Mine.

Jane Austen

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“I would very much like to rise from my sickbed, Doctor, if you would allow me to,” Harry smiled as he sat up on his bed, wisps of white hair lifting in the afternoon breeze. The doctor looked at the former Prime Minister and gave a silent nod. “I have unfinished business and it bothers me to no end,” he continued.

Ernest Hemingway

Original

“You cannot keep me in this grave,” he smiled.

Rorschach

Original

October 13, 2059. Woke up in grave this morning. Something felt wrong. Heard loud mutters of recession and a winning Opposition Party. Unacceptable. Must get up.

E. L James

Original

“Why don't you want to retire?" "Because Singapore's fifty shades of messed-up, Anastasia.”

David Foster Wallace

Original

“Because this is what leadership is about: responsibility. If I ever felt that something was amiss and if I could get up from my deathbed - and I can - there is no doubt I would return to finish the job. Leadership is more about a fancy title. Whether or not you are a store manager, colonel or minister mentor - it is always about giving your all, even if means coming back from the grave.”

Yoda

Original

“Trouble Singapore is in. Lower me into the grave, you will not.” “Get up, I will.”

Your Boss

“I might be on MC, but I will return if I find things to be unsatisfactory.”

Original

Dr Suess

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Harry sat up in his box, He wiggled his toe and felt his socks, There was something different in the air that day, Harry knew he had things to say. “I have to get up to sing my song!” “I have to succeed where they went wrong!”

Planet of the Apes

Original

“Me feel something wrong. No rest for me.” “Me make everything right.”

William Shakespeare

Original

“When death cometh to claim thy soul I shall not budge an inch’ Till I right the wrongs of old, Thou shalt feel my mighty pinch.”

Associated Press

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The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has allegedly risen from his grave. Mr Lee was quoted in local newspaper The Straits Times as saying, “something is wrong.”

SMS

And, of course, we've saved the best for last.

Upworthy

Original

Man gets lowered into grave...What happens next will blow your mind! 15 pictures of real-life immortals…#14 is AMAZING! They thought they were attending a funeral...but they were WRONG!

Hurhur.

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