"We practically own everything in the Philippines."

-- Imelda Marcos

#Philippines Quotes

“The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.”
“Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of foodâ€¦and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.”
“Giving up is the greatest failure.”
“There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.”
“We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.”
“Itâ€™s better to please God and have a few people upset with you than to please people and have God upset with you.”
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”
“As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". Press Conference, transcripts.cnn.com. August 09, 2002.

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