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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Psychology
Always
Energy
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" In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. "
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" No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God. "
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" What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable. "
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" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
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" We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed. "
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" Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls. "
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" Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity. "
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" As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments. "
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" There are five requirements for an accused to turn state witness. One of the requirements is that the accused does not appear to be the most guilty. "
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" There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. "
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" Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. "
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" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
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" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
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You
Life
" The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness. "
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Live Life
Me
" I have passed all the physical hardships known to man. "
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Physical
Passed
" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "
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" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
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I See
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" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "
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Women
Care
" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
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Illegal
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" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
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" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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" That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, 'Well, tell us what you want it for, but you are free to decide where to spend it on.' "
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" Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes. "
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" I am a bankable candidate. "
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" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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" I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God. "
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" The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty. "
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" Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going. "
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