Why do we solicit the opinions and half-baked analyses of foreign observers when they aren't even stakeholders in this political problem?
If and when the dust of this political war settles, these international media outfits can just as easily offer a half-meant apology and say, "We thought Duterte was going to be a dictator as your VP had said. So, we helped you remove him. It turns out that he wasn't but he certainly had all the capacity to be a dictator."
And we, the Filipinos, will be left to pick up the pieces of a broken republic.
~Bryan Ng Co
OTHER QUOTES
"A drop of rain.
A speck of dust.
Thanks for allowing me to see the world in a blade of grass."
~Bryan Ng Co
"A righteous person censures others but is doubly more critical of his own behavior. Any less than that and he loses moral ascendancy." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Arguing from exception is like judging the moon harshly for its total eclipses rather than for the reflective light it benefits and blesses us with regularly." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Before there were signature bags there must first be fat bank accounts." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Each day is a new choice, a new chance." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Do not trust people who do not apologize. Their pride is more valuable than your friendship." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Human life is as resilient as it is fragile. In the most trying of circumstances life thrives. Yet, in the flimsiest of ordeals, life can be snuffed out as easily as a candle flame." ~Bryan Ng Co
"If you believe that only your enemies have errors, then you have already lost your mind. And lost." ~Bryan Ng Co
"In a relationship of co-dependencies, the death of one leaves the other vulnerable." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Problems are troughs that make us treasure the peaks of joys more." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Sometimes, a break from a preoccupation offers an opportunity for learning, and maybe, even relearning." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Stock knowledge are like threads You must learn how to use them, to weave them into a pattern and produce a fine embroidery." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Thanks to the gift of time. Each moment opened gave me hope. Each moment closed left me wisdom." ~Bryan Ng Co, December 30, 2017
"The intelligent doesn't behave intractably for the sake of being disagreeable. Conversely, no intelligent person will ever subscribe to every idea expressed by others simply for the sake of being agreeable. Ideas clash. Ideas overlap. Ideas cohere." ~Bryan Ng Co, July 25, 2017
"The most difficult problem you encounter today
Will be a mere fraction of its size by tomorrow
The biggest event of this year will
Have become a mere story by the next.
Each of us is a collection of stories.
Our lives, our works, our victories, our misfortunes
They all become part of the stories we tell
When tomorrow comes, when the new day dawns."
~Bryan Ng Co, September 22, 2017
"The season of Christmas may find people generous with their gifts. But this season of giving is also a season of greed. It is a time to be acutely aware of who's not home and what we do not have. Between the fragility of life and the commercialism of Christmas, between what we have and what we don't, between giving and receiving, may all of you find it in your heart to be more generous to those who are wanting and needing. And love those you have taken for granted. Your mom, your dad, your siblings, your spouse or even that pesky neighbor. This is, after all, in keeping with the spirit of the season" ~Bryan Ng Co
"To teach an inch, you need a yard. To teach a yard, you need a whole football field of knowledge." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Truth gives no assurance of comfort. Nor does it guarantee freedom. It often jails people as much as it frees them." ~Bryan Ng Co
"Words have the power to evoke feelings. However, unless backed up by sustainable, daily reaffirming actions, those words soon become empty promises." ~Bryan Ng Co
ATTRIBUTED QUOTES
"Ask people who disagree with you to unfriend you. Don't threaten to unfriend them. While the former is humble, the latter is arrogant." ~Bryce Tan, March 17, 2018
"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck." ~Joseph Heller, "God Knows" 1984
"If you're poor and industrious, you need science.
If you're poor and lazy, you need religion."
~Bryce Tan
"Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought." -- Ayn Rand
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." ~Paul Wellstone
"Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them; but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them." ~Professor James P. Carse
"Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can't begin to explore your possibilities." ~Tim Fargo
VERSE
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air..."
~Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Churchyard
"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime"
~Shakespeare
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