“Easy access to credit? Encouraging speculative behaviour?.. How can they encourage the very behaviour that caused the financial crisis in the first place?”
skeptic
“In my 12 years of education here, not once was the topic of human rights raised during any of my national education lessons, a clear omission in education policy on our government’s part.”
Alastair Su
“Wasted two hours with the Straits Times after the Animax workshop. I could have been talking about Dollfies and it wouldn’t have mattered because they quoted me with an incredibly distorted view of what I said.”
Danny Choo
“It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects..”
Chee Hong Tat Private Secretary to Harry
“Utterly disappointing. This is symptomatic of why our country has been largely stripped of its character, verve and color, leaving nothing but a sterile petri dish of un-opinionated individuals..”
Ian Tan
“Ignorance and bigotry are foolishness. Recognition of the heritage of our forefathers, and respect for diversity of our nation are not.”
Deng Chao
“Sometimes, the saddest thing about Singapore is not that we have an authoritarian government, but that the people think it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to them.”
Yawning Bread
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