"All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve."

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Source : "Filipinos in History, Vol. 2" by National Historical Institute of the Philippines, 1989.

Epifanio de los Santos

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“I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.”
“If you donâ€™t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.”
“If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.”
“I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.”
“The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.384, Booklassic
“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft”
“Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.”

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