January 2012
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“There is a wide distinction between facts and a conclusion from facts. It is...”
– Justice Johnson, in Braga v. Millora, 1904
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“As an administrative proceeding, the evidentiary bar against which the evidence...”
– Miro v. Dosono, G.R. No. 170697, April 30, 2010
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Mr. Chief Justice →
Profile of the Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, in The Philippines Free Press, 1939.
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“Public office is a public trust. A public servant must bear at all times the...”
– Filoteo v. Calago, A.M. No. P-04-1815 (Formerly OCA IPI No. 04-1885-P), October 18, 2007
The fate of Article II: “A threshold issue” →
from Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
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Jose P. Laurel's sponsorship speech on the Bill of...
MR. LAUREL. (Continuing.) Mr. President, I just want to say a few words, and I will be through.
The history of the world is the history of man and his arduous struggle for liberty. And the history of the Philippines is the history of the Filipinos and their gigantic struggle for emancipation. It is the history of those brave and noble souls who, in the ages that are past, have labored, fought and...
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“If we must choose between a strict and literal interpretation of the law and a...”
– Justice George A. Malcolm, Ysip vs. Municipal Council of Cabiao, 43 Phil. 251
The Second Article: Fishing Expedition or... →
from Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
“Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of...”
– -Henry Mackenzie
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The Nature of the Beast: Sui Generis →
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“There is nothing sacred about processes or pleadings, their forms or contents....”
– Justice Moreland, in Alonso v. Villamor, 16 Phil. 315, 321-322 [1910]
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“MR. MAAMBONG: I will now concern myself with the statement of the Chairman that...”
– —Record of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, Volume 2, R.C.C. No. 40, July 26, 1986
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He Said, She Said, and Gravitas →
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Term of the Day: Duplicate Original →
My blog entry for today.
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The Senate and the People of the Philippines. →
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"A method of National Inquest into the conduct of... →
This is my blog entry for today.
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“The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
– George Smiley, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (via westminster-station)
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“On Wednesday 7 May 1940 the House of Commons began debating the innocuous...”
– Dennis Glover, The Art of Great Speeches: And Why We Remember Them
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“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat...”
– John le Carré
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“Earlier, rich noble families, or families with an illustrious reputation, had...”
– Tacitus, The Annals, new translation by J.C. Yardey
“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down...”
– Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via fragmentedreality)
exit, pursued by a bear: Sonnet XXX →
toniiu:
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, And weep afresh…
