More Original Speeches from The Ateneo de Manila Manny V. Pangilinan School of Speechifying

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Manny V. Pangilinan's Keynote Remarks Inauguration of the New Rizal Library 8th December 2009: Libraries are as old as civilization. From the 30,000 clay tablets found in the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, to the computers of a modern library – stretch more than five thousand years of man’s insatiable desire to establish written immortality, insure the continuity of culture and civilization, to share his wisdom, his dreams, his memory, and his story with the rest of mankind, and with future generations
Dr. Vartan Gregorian in his Keynote Address White House Conference on School Libraries: Libraries are as old as civilization-the object of pride, envy and sometimes senseless destruction. From the clay tablets of Babylon to the computers of a modern library stretch more than five thousand years of man's and woman's insatiable desire to establish written immortality and to insure the continuity of culture and civilization, to share their memory, their wisdom, their strivings, their fantasies, their longings, and their experiences with mankind and with future generations.
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Manuel V. Pangilinan at the 8th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility 26th November 2009: From the streets of Marikina to the flooded plains of Pangasinan, Filipinos should write the next chapter in their stories. Together, we should ensure that the legacy of a terrible storm is a country that is safer, and better prepared, for the tragedies that may come
Barack Hussein Obama Katrina Anniversary 29th August 2009: From the streets of New Orleans to the Mississippi Coast, folks are beginning the next chapter in their American stories. And together, we can ensure that the legacy of a terrible storm is a country that is safer and more prepared for the challenges that may come
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Manuel V. Pangilinan at the 8th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility 26th November 2009: These trials also remind us that we are tied together in this life, in this nation – that the despair of one touches us all
George W. Bush Hurricane Relief Address to the Nation 15 September 2005: And they remind us that we're tied together in this life, in this nation -- and that the despair of any touches us all.
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Manuel V. Pangilinan at the 8th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility 26th November 2009: But we must believe that that future will come -- that with every tragedy comes the chance of renewal, that adversity can give birth to hope, and the lessons of the past hold the key to a better future
Barack Hussein Obama Katrina Anniversary 29th August 2009: But we also remember that with every tragedy comes the chance of renewal. It is a quintessentially American notion – that adversity can give birth to hope, and that the lessons of the past hold the key to a better future
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Manny V. Pangilinan Commencement Address Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan 23rd March 2007 : I just want you to do me a favor. Just one favor. Exercise your right to dream. Sure, you must face reality — that which is. But dream of a reality that ought to be — that must be.
Martin Luther King Jr: I just want young America to do me one favor, just one favor. Exercise the right to dream. You must face reality -- that which is. But then dream of a reality that ought to be -- that must be.
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Manny V. Pangilinan Commencement Address Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan 23rd March 2007 : As for myself, I have always believed in the strenuous life, in the life of labor and effort. The highest form of success comes not to the man who desires easy peace or inherits instant wealth, but to the man who does not shrink from risks, from hardship, or from bitter toil
Theodore Roosevelt 10th April 1899: I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.