"All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride."

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Source : "Imelda and the Clans: A Story of the Philippines" by Beatriz Romualdez Francia, Solar Publishing Corporation, (p. 510), 1988.

Corazon Aquino

#Pride Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.”

Source : "My Dark Places". Book by James Ellroy, 1996.
“Surround yourself with a loving community.”
“When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.”
“I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2012). “The Shape of Desire”, p.54, Penguin
“One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.”
“I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.”
“I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.”

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