Benigno Aquino III Quotes
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
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The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
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I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.
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There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
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The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
