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Ambeth Ocampo Quotes

b. 1961 Philippines

Ambeth R. Ocampo (born in 1961, Manila) is a Filipino historian, author, and journalist who makes Philippine history more engaging for the public.

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Is history repeating itself? Not really, we are the ones repeating history.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

It is memory that has made the person I am today. Without memory we cannot form relationships, we cannot know who we are, we cannot forge our identities. The same is true for history.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ambeth Ocampo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.