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" Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. "
Hell
Bible
Crime
" Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. "
Fight
Anything
Self
" Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. "
Gold
Lawyer
Mining
" Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. "
Beauty
Miserable
Ugly
" Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. "
Want
Look
Beauty
" God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven. "
God
Go
Will
" I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life. "
Beauty
Always
God
" I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am. "
First
Lady
People
" I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. "
Peace
Problem
War
" I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. "
Sixty
Did
Funny
" If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much. "
How
Much
How Much
" If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. "
Rich
I Am
Wealth
" I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. "
Tired
Here
Listening
" I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable. "
Sleep
Humanity
Mother
" I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness. "
Hate
You
Ugliness
" I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical. "
Think
Logical
Different
" I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. "
Me
Father
Back
" I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude. "
Love
Positive
Great
" I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude. "
Gratitude
Shoes
Love
" It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. "
God
Soul
People
" It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose. "
Lose
You
Poor
" I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. "
Born
Had
Human
" I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. "
Roads
Food
Building
" Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. "
Justice
Family
Life
" My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become. "
Become
Reality
My Life
" My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. "
Dreams
Live
Meet
" My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. "
Too Much
Me
Trouble
" Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. "
You
Down
Dress
" People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? "
Beauty
Garbage
Me
" The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. "
Crime
World
Understand
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