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"It is memory that has made the person I am today. Without memory we cannot form relationships, we cannot know who we are, we cannot forge our identities. The same is true for history."
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Ambeth OcampoRizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was s — Ambeth Ocampo
"Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot."
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
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Ambeth Ocampo
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Ambeth Raymundo Ocampo is a Filipino public historian, academic, cultural administrator, journalist, author, and independent curator. He is best known for his definitive writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal, and for popularizing Philippine history and art through Looking Back, his long-running editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, as well as his bestselling book R
About Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth Raymundo Ocampo is a Filipino public historian, academic, cultural administrator, journalist, author, and independent curator. He is best known for his definitive writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal, and for popularizing Philippine history and art through Looking Back, his long-running editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, as well as his bestselling book R
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"I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory."
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"A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint."
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"History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives."
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"Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old."
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"School made us literate but did not teach us to read for pleasure."
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