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Michael David S. Sy
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Cries and Whispers: The Philippine Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Pandemic: The Philippine Response to COVID-19
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The Lies that Sanitized a Dictatorship
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| I went into this book blind. This was recommended by both my sister and my girlfriend, and while fantasy is the genre I least read, I thought there was no harm in trying. There will be minor spoilers, but nothing that will destroy one's appreciation ...more | |
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| Overall, I think this guide toward becoming a faster reader still generally works, although I take issue with anything being skimmed properly in just 10 seconds. The final exercise is skimming a 1500+ word selection in 10 seconds, and I think that is ...more | |
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| These feature short articles that magnify particular features of emotional intelligence as well as its importance in our day-to-day lives. | |
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I did not expect that in the book Everyday Emotional Intelligence, I was to get two volumes in one. This is the first volume of those. Like many of the managers and ascendant individuals in this volume, I had been intelligent during school and at work ...more |
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| The first third of the book which provided a summary of Philippine history is a good survey of the important occurrences and injustices done toward the Filipino people over the past 500 years. The book, however, flails afterward when viewed from an o ...more | |
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| I first discovered a copy of Santayana's novel when I was in Australia seven or eight years ago and I thought him relevant enough that I never parted with my copy even when I sold or gave away most of the other books I purchased there. It always rema ...more | |
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"Because of my affection for Santayana, I want to give this book a better rating; but this is the internet, after all, and so I must be honest: this is not a terribly good novel. I find this a bit strange. Santayana was an excellent writer—one of the "
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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
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