"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?"

-- William Blake

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“I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.”

Source : "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.
“Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.”
“I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.”
“Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.”
“If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.”
“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots”
“The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.”

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