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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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Nibelung loyalty

The archaic ideal of Nibelung loyalty still counts more than the desire for knowledge.

—p.70 Some People Can Even Sleep Through an Earthquake (66) by Peter Schneider
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hoary

That hoary insult seems on its way to becoming a honorific.

referring to "anti-Communist"

—p.67 Some People Can Even Sleep Through an Earthquake (66) by Peter Schneider
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do away with the existing borders

[...] And in Upper Silesia? Are revanchist elements still active there? At this, the pastor shakes his head and prefers not to commit himself. "In a new Europe," he says cautiously, letting his gaze rise to met the distant future, "we will have to do away with the existing borders through economic …

—p.58 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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revanchism

Adjusting borders, revanchist schemes--he has no interest in such things

—p.56 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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