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A tricycle driver, a farmer, a home economics graduate-they are all ordinary people aspiring to be the most powerful person of the Philippines.

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Just because Filipinos are angry and want justice for the slaughter and desecration of the bodies of the 44 slain members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force in an ambush by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters doesn't mean they are pushing for and would relish an all-out war to be waged against the rebels.

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It should come as no surprise that the welcome for visiting Pope Francis would be intense.

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The government has the power and the authority to impose and collect taxes.

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Christians are ordinary people who are committed to the extraordinary person of Christ.

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A man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life. — Ecclesiastes 8:15

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Set aside for a while the fact that two Cebu City SWAT members used excessive force (as very clearly seen on television) in apprehending an unruly (also very clear in the same footage) student from Papua New Guinea.

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