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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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robotization is not new and unusual

[...] This translates directly into higher labor productivity and--eventually, and if workers acquire the necessary skills, and society develops the necessary tools for managing income distribution--higher wages. Mechanization or robotization is not new and unusual, no matter how clever and impress…

—p.129 GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History The Future: Twenty-first-Century GDP (119) by Diane Coyle
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a side effect, not a goal

It is widely known now, as it was not before 2008, that the financial markets were characterized not just by irrational exuberance but also by widespread fraud, deception (including self-deception), and market manipulation. Not to mention in the financial and corporate worlds alike a loss of ethica…

—p.95 Our Times: The Great Crash (93) by Diane Coyle
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logotherapy

Frankl's therapeutic school, logotherapy, explores the idea that selves in an extreme state of personal degradation or loss are often better able to comprehend what is really meaningful. But this, of course, does not mean you create a second holocaust in order to generate meaning.

—p.294 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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