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Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius.

— Epifanio de los Santos

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It is not strange that Menendez Pelayo should discover the Filipino scholar because in brains and heart they were the same.

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The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.

They overvalue courage forgetting that without knowledge it is only recklessness...Less bluff, more study.

When every Filipino home shall contain such a national work, stimulative of autonomous sentiments...then the Philippines will be spiritually and practically independent.

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