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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

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Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

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Il nipotismo di Roma, or, The History of the Popes Nephews; from the time of Sixtus IV. to the death of the last Pope, Alexander VII

by Gregorio Leti

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“There were corpses every night at the height of the killings. Seven, twelve, twenty-six, the brutality reduced to a paragraph, sometimes only a sentence each. The language failed as the body count rose.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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“Is was easy to follow the parade of coffins and imagine these last two deaths as inevitabilities, the natural consequence of violent rhetoric from above and wholesale impunity below.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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“Maybe those who voted for death thought they had voted for a metaphor.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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“Nanlaban, under Rodrigo Duterte, did not mean only that a man had fought back. It meant he had fought and died. Nanlaban is judgment and justification, verb and noun, a shorthand for the dead bastards who deserved what they got.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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“I could rail and rage and moan, but in the end, I was the person watching from the outside, looking to lay the weight of democracy on the shoulders of the grieving family. They had their dead. I had my guilt.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

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