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Pause and Think

We bring you a collection of thought provoking sayings with the hope that you will pause and think about it... with reference to the situations in Singapore.

 

dice optical illusion

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

~ Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris


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Civil Disobedience Print

 

Two acts of civil disobedience in the twentieth-century history of the United States: In the 1920s much of the population decided to ignore the constitutional prohibition on alcohol consumption, and in 1980s they decided to ignore the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit.

Their decisions ultimately destroyed those restrictions, which failed because the cost of enforcement especially surveillance, was incompatible with a free society.

~ Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
 
The rich would have to eat money Print E-mail

LKY birthday

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

~ Russian Proverb
 
It isn't that they can't see the solution Print E-mail
The poor in Singapore

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

~ G.K. Chesterton
 
A penny will hide the biggest star Print E-mail

solar eclipse

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

~ Samuel Grafton
 


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