1. "Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines."
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Ambeth R. Ocampo, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures
2. "the Parnaíba River, capital of"
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Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary
3. "Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret? [Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]"
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Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
4. "Like Tokyo? That’s the capital of"
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Nora Roberts, Home for Christmas
5. "Capital dictates the fate of humanity."
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
6. "the current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines."
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica
7. "The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone."
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Paul Karl Feyerabend, Farewell to Reason
8. "No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world."
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Quote by Kenneth T. Jackson
9. "Miami ... the floating-human-body-parts capital of America."
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Carl Hiaasen, Bad Monkey
10. "Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value."
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Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages