Saturday, 10 January 2026

Category: Column

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Constitutional psychiatry

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant, and the legislative branch too stupid.   – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and

Lucky Lim — the forgotten hero

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell, American professor Peter Lim Chian Seng

Much ado about nothing?

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others. – Eugene J. Martin, American

Beware the hungry ghosts!

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. – Dick Cavett, American

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Of law and justice

Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment. – Mohandas K Gandhi, lawyer, and Indian freedom fighter “Law and

Light at the end of the tunnel soon?

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. – Chinese proverb Some non-Sarawakians flying into

Why another race-based party, Dr M?

Wherever it takes disaster to unite, politics generally divide: and in eras of intense uncertainty, a nation’s people retreat into the tribes in which they