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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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only the guards would have been different

[...] From my parents' stories I have come to believe that the truth does not reside exclusively on one's own political side. My father reinforced this one day when he told me something that has remained etched in my mind ever since. 'When I was in the prison camp,' he said, 'I knew in my bones tha…

—p.xiii And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Foreword to the Paperback Edition (ix) by Yanis Varoufakis
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abrogation

the European Union had lost its integrity by crushing Greece and while it was in the process of forfeiting its soul by abrogating its responsibilities to refugees

—p.x Foreword to the Paperback Edition (ix) by Yanis Varoufakis
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fractious

Why is Europe so clearly failing to emulate the United States, which also began life as a loose confederacy of fractious states before consolidating magnificently in response to its various existential crises?

I mean I don't know if I agree about the "magnificently" part but I guess he's comparing to Europe so fair enough

—p.ix Foreword to the Paperback Edition (ix) by Yanis Varoufakis
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dialectic

A politics of indebtedness thus poses a basic dialectical problem: how can the constructive and constitutive force of indebtedness be affirmed without erecting an appropriative and destructive apparatus?

—p.185 Conclusion: Who’s Afraid of Jubilee? (171) by Richard Dienst
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