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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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succor

Before long the working class in one nation turned against the working classes of all other nations, looking to protectionism for succour. In 1929 protectionism took the form of devaluing one’s currency vis-à-vis others. As we shall see, in 2010 it took the form of devaluing one’s labor vis-à-vis others.

—p.9 Preface: The Red Blanket (1) by Yanis Varoufakis
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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 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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