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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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liberalism may be doomed to extinction

Right-wing populism thrives because the world of the working classes has been destroyed by corporate capitalism and has become devalued by cultural progressive elites who, from the 1980s onwards, focused their intellectual and political energy on sexual and cultural minorities, thus generating fier…

—p.62 The Great Regression From the paradox of liberation to the demise of liberal elites (49) by Eva Illouz
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what are we fighting and dying for

On that occasion, I also escaped with merely probation. The editor-in-chief
ended the conversation with, what seemed for a moment, a
mischievous twinkle in his eyes: _Since you proved yourself entirely incapable
of writing anything publishable in the Soviet press about East Africa, we are
sendi…

—p.77 The First Red Century Straying From the Party Line (65) by Georgi Derluguian
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encomium

festooned with American flags and encomiums to Abraham Lincoln

I think it should be encomia but maybe that's just a colloquial version?

—p.120 Our Favorite Dupe (117) by Seth Ackerman
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