Benigno Aquino Jr. Quotes
I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
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Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.
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The moon is waxing. December moon. Cold Moon.
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In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.
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This completely changed the reality of thousands of Polish municipalities. After 40 years, local self-government was restored, ending the rule of local representatives of the communist government.
