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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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inveigle

I managed to inveigle my way into the London Real Estate Forum

—p.16 Big Capital (1) by Anna Minton
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global capital flows, not local circumstances

[...] I hope to expose the lie that the housing crisis is a market question of supply and demand. Governments of all stripes have argued that we simply need to loosen plannning restructions and build more homes for sale. It may seem logial enough to argue that if we increase housing supply then p…

—p.xiv Introduction (xi) by Anna Minton
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she was the one who would pay

[...] I was furious with myself but, naturally, she was the one who would pay. A terrible anger against her surged through my heart; I could have killed her. [...]

—p.120 Notes From Underground On the Occasion of Wet Snow (41) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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transom

I sat ignored by everyone, crushed and annihilated.

Good Lord, is this fit company for me? I thought. And what a fool I've made of myself before them! [...] The numbskulls think they've done me a favor by letting me sit at their table, they don't understand that it's I, I who am honoring them, a…

—p.75 On the Occasion of Wet Snow (41) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky