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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
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Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
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To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.
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The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view.. But don't expect thanks and laurels—crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted.
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Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing! (God speaking to the angel Gabriel)
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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
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It breaks immortality's neck
Contemplates crime and therefore halts it;
It humbles barbarous nations
And makes of savages, champions.
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I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors;
Where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
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I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
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Each one writes history according to his convenience.
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For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
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We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.
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No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
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Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
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How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
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Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
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The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
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Born:
June 19, 1861
Died:
December 30, 1896
(aged 35)
Bio:
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda or popularly known as José Rizal was a Filipino nationalist during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
Known for:
Noli Me Tángere (1887)
El Filibusterismo (1891)
Mi último adiós
Filipinas dentro de cien años (1889)
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