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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. ↗
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. ↗
Drained of faith, I kneel and hail thee as my Lord, I ask not life, thou need not swerve the bullet, I ask but strength to ride the wave, and one more thing, teach me to hate ↗
Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so. ↗
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? ↗
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Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence? ↗
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Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed them privately in a touching letter to Queen Elizabeth in which he wondered if he deserved "all the good things which have happened to me," especially "to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly. ↗
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. ↗
