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"In giving, we receive; in losing, we find; and out of defeat, we snatched our victory."
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"Let us rather be grateful to the nation and to the historical moment for the privilege we had of being heroes."
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María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th president of the Philippines, serving from 1986 to 1992. The first female president in Philippine history, Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic. She has been re
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"By the grace of God and the unshakeable faith of the Filipino people, I am confident we shall pull through."
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"I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles."
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"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot."
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"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rights as God gives us to see the rights, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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"I believed that nowhere could you find more effective cures for the ills of our country — such as the habit of oppression, the inclination to corruption, betrayal of the public interest — than in the blessings of democracy: freedom; rights; transparent dealings; and a government of the people by the people themselves."
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