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“The U.S. government cannot just fold its arms on the Philippines with which it has had a long tradition of friendship and history of tutelage in democracy. In the light of the traditional American policy of fighting its defensive wars outside the American continent, the Philippines becomes America’s special concern because it is a vital link in the U.S. world-wide defense network designed to keep wars away from American shores.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

“Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The opposite of anxiety isn’t calm, it’s trust.”
― Barry M. Prizant, Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism