"If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Doubt Quotes #Done Quotes #Authority Quotes

“To this day I still watch tons of horror.”
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
“The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.”

Source : "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.
“How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?”
“It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.”
“Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.”
“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

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