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I cannot, in good conscience, receive ... Government assistance when so many of my less fortunate sisters and their children are not yet taken care of.

— Aurora Quezon

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The winning of the war is the only question before us. Nothing else matters.

I feel that on account of ... countless war widows and orphans ... I should waive collection of a pension.

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