Nick JoaquÃn famous quotes

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The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.
-- Nick JoaquÃn

#Identity #Today #Asking
The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.
-- Nick JoaquÃn

#Tools #Use
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
-- Nick JoaquÃn

#Blood #Identity #Flesh
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
-- Nick JoaquÃn

#Spring #Alternatives #Reason
The young look up to me as their feeder, said Alex. Well, they can go look for another trough. I'm through with this hogwash.Are liberal ideas hogwash?All ideas are hogwash, Jack.Don't you believe in anything anymore?Sure. I believe in God the Father of Nonsense, creator of Crap and Nonsense, is now and ever shall be Crap without end. Oh, oh, Jack, how we break our hearts trying to make sense of a world that's pure and utter crap. But if you ever come to where I am now, you'll be surprised and delighted to find out how little anything matters.You've begun to sound Christian, said Pocholo.
-- Nick JoaquÃn

#Christian #Father #Believe

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

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