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Ferdinand had foresight and unbelievable luck. His success actually bordered on fiction.

— Imelda Marcos

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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star.

The Los Angeles Times (1980)

Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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