- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
- Ethnic Groups
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
- Ethnic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020