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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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Africa doesn't need aid

[...] Africa doesn't need aid; it simply needs an international legal system that can protect it from permanent pillage.

—p.170 Chronicles: On Our Political and Economic Crisis Capital in South Africa (168) by Thomas Piketty
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catechism

We're also the only country that chose to close the schools one day per week [...] for catechism

whoa, this was news to me

—p.162 Secularism and Inequality: The French Hypocrisy (162) by Thomas Piketty
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debt reduction in France and Germany

A particularly interesting case is that of Germany and France, which in 1945 found themselves with public debts of around two years’ worth (200 percent) of GDP, levels even higher than Greece or Italy today. By the early 1950s those debts had fallen to less than 30 percent of GDP. Obviously, such a…

—p.160 Must Debts Always Be Paid Back? (159) by Thomas Piketty