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“The East, resentful of subjection and poverty, may go in for science and industry at the very time when the children of the West, sick of machines that impoverish them and of sciences that disillusion them, may destroy their cities and their machines in chaotic revolution or war, go back, beaten, weary and starving, to the soil, and forge for themselves another mystic faith to give them courage in the face of hunger, cruelty, injustice and death. There is no humorist like history.”
― Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

“What remains in the aftermath of four decades of American rule and thirty years of Philippine independence-- when peasant demands have not been stilled and peasant organizations continue to grow--reaffirms to us the peasants’ conviction that the “social regeneration implicit and promised in the Revolution of 1896-1902 has yet to be obtained.”
― Milagros C. Guerrero, Luzon at War: Contradictions in Philippine Society, 1898-1902

“Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia

“Lembrai-vos de que o sono é repouso do querer.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, A Vida Intelectual: Seu espírito, suas condições, seus métodos