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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. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Believe
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Me
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" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
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" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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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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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
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" 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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" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
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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 have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options. "
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" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
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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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" The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security. "
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" There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country. "
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" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
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" I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt. "
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" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
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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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" 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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" I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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