"A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor."

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Source : Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”

Diosdado Macapagal

#Struggle Quotes #Blood Quotes #Oneness Quotes

“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.”
“When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, 'â€That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, â€˜Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?”

Source : "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels" by Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
“I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.”
“It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, 'objectivity', 'truth', it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.”

Source : "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.
“But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him.”
“Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.”
“When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.”
“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”

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