"Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice."

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Source : "'Como se gobiernan las Filipinas' ('How one governs in the Philippines')". La Solidaridad, December 15, 1890.

Jose Rizal

#Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.”
“After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.”
“I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.”
“In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.”
“I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.”
“I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.”

Source : "AK-47 Inventor Says Conscience Is Clear" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. July 6, 2007.
“If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro”
“Prayer is the passport to peace.”

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