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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. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Just
God
You
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" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "
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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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" 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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" I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself. "
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" Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual. "
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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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" It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators. "
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" My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did. "
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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 want to be known as Terminator 2. "
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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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" 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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" I am a bankable candidate. "
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" Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men. "
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" The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. "
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" I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture. "
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" I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age. "
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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 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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" Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life. "
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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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" I eat death threats for breakfast! "
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" Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics. "
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" My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away. "
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" Entering politics is a fate worse than death. "
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