Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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Teutonic

‘How come Being?’ is a supreme example of a pseudo-question [...] For them, it is really just a ponderous Teutonic way of saying ‘Wow!’

I just think it's a great word

—p.3 Questions and answers (1) by Terry Eagleton
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anomie

This mixture of anxiety, anomie, alienation and anger is creating a 'perfect storm'

for hate-filled populism

—p.xi Preface (vii) by Guy Standing
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precariat

a growing 'precariat', consisting of millions of people facing unstable, insecure labour, a lack of occupational identity, declining and increasingly volatile real wages, loss of benefits and chronic indebtedness

—p.xi Preface (vii) by Guy Standing
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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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expropriation

the brief periods of chaotic expropriation that have always undermined the development of Latin America

—p.146 Capital According to Carlos Fuentes (145) by Thomas Piketty
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