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Who know but that, once his poverty and misery shall have been assuaged, the Chinese will return to the freedom of thought, speech, and enterprise that we have realized is necessary for personal happiness and national well-being.

— Maria Kalaw Katigbak

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The human spirit sleeps only while the body is weak and hungry. Because it is God-given, the spirit cannot always be deadened and filled. The dental of the intellectual as the true leader of the people in favor of the peasant and the laborer has not been proved by history.

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I am a positivist in the strict sense of the word. But I don't know if I really am in truth or in the sense that you ask. My father is an idealist, my mother a positivist. I think I share both.

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