"I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense."

-- Sylvia Lim

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Accountability Quotes

“Go, send, or disobey.”
“Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.”

Source : Maury Wills, Steve Gardner (1963). “It pays to steal”
“Photography is truth.”
“Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.”
“I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.”
“The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.”
“The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.”
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.”

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